Books by Daryl Sharp
ISBN 0-919123-00-7. Illustrated. Index. 128 pp. 1980. $25.00 A concise illustration of the meaning and purpose of neurosis, with particular attention to puer psychology, anima and shadow, the mother complex, individuation and dream symbolism. Focus on the life of Franz Kafka. ISBN 0-919123-30-9. Index. 128 pp. 1987. $25.00 Detailed explanations of the psychological attitudes of introversion and extraversion, the functions of feeling, thinking, sensation and intuition, and the pesky role of the unconscious. ISBN 0-919123-34-1. Index. 160 pp. 1988. $25.00 Lost your mate, your energy, peace of mind? Welcome to midlife crisis. Jung’s basic concepts come alive as one man’s plight is dramatically portrayed with humor, compassion and ruthless clarity. ISBN 0-919123-36-8. Index. 144 pp. 1989. $25.00 Continues the story of Norman’s midlife crisis (title 35) and what happened to him when he went into analysis. Again, part textbook, part novel. ISBN 0-919123-48-1. Diagrams. Index. 160 pp. 1991. $25.00 Illustrates the broad scope of analytical psychology and the interrelationship of Jung’s cultural, scientific and clinical work. Definitions are accompanied by choice extracts from Jung’s Collected Works, with informed commentary and generous crossreferences. Download this book for free ISBN 0-919123-56-2. Index. 128 pp. 1992. $25.00 A lively discussion based on the ideas in Jung’s essay, “Marriage As a Psychological Relationship.” Complex material illustrated with everyday examples. Some inescapable truths emerge, such as that successful relationships depend on becoming conscious of one’s personal psychology. ISBN 0-919123-62-7. Illustrated. 128 pp. 1993. $25.00 Chicken Little: Messiah, Meshuggeneh or Metaphor? Join the author and Professor Adam Brillig in their fearless search for the truth. This is Book One of The Brillig Trilogy (with titles 67, 72). “Remarkably humorous, beautifully written, tantalizingly irreducible and full of the magic and simplicity of being human. At times it left me breathless.”—Friend’s Review. Download this book for free ISBN 0-919123-68-6. 15 illustrations. Index. 144 pp. 1995. $25.00 How does personality differ from persona? What differentiates an individual from the collective? Where does vocation fit in? This is Book Two of The Brillig Trilogy (with titles 61, 72) featuring the author and Professor Adam Brillig in an artful exposition of Jungian psychology. ISBN 0-919123-73-2. Index. 128 pp. 1996. $25.00 New Age pursuits are on the wane. People are hungry for substance. Where else to find it but in Jung’s ideas on the nature and influence of the unconscious? This inventive learning experience is Book Three of The Brillig Trilogy (with titles 61, 67). ISBN 0-919123-81-3. Index. 160 pp. 1998. $25.00 A comprehensive overview of basic Jungian concepts: archetypes and complexes; psychological types; conflict; neurosis; persona and shadow; projection and identification; the puer/puella syndrome; anima and animus; individuation; dream interpretation; active imagination; inflation, self-knowledge and vocation—and much, much more. ISBN 0-919123-82-1. 8-1/2” x 11”. Sewn 160 pp. 1999. $40.00 Over 15,000 individual entries, from AA to zygon, generously crossreferenced. A detailed Key at the bottom of each page points the way to the Inner City title you need. This useful research tool is FREE with individual orders of 10 books or more (no booksellers). ISBN 0-919123-96-1. Index. 128 pp. 2001. $25.00 This book grew out of the author’s desire to pinpoint key passages in Jung’s writings that have nourished him for years. It provides readers with the main ingredients of Jung’s work and suggests how they might flavor a life in search of meaning. Each chapter is headed by an appetizer, which is then fleshed out by the author’s commentary—an elucidation or experiential interpretation, sometimes both—meant to stimulate the reader to ruminate on the unconscious factors that influence us all. Those seeking a more robust meal will be amply rewarded by following up the references. Download this book for free. ISBN 1-894574-13-3. Index 128 pp. 2005. $25.00 With this book, The Brillig Trilogy (Chicken Little, Who Am I, Really? and Living Jung) becomes The Brillig Quartet. In this volume, the author and the redoubtable Professor Adam Brillig collaborate to create a sparkling love story, salted with balls and ball games, Eros, desire contained and the unpredictable world of the psyche, grounded at all times in the classical precepts of Jungian psychology: individuation, typology, complexes, active imagination, projection, conflict, enantiodromia, the holding of tension and the transcendent function. Jung often noted that the movement from three to four was difficult but psychologically crucial. As expressed in the alchemical Axiom of Maria — “One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth” — we must regularly reassess where we are in our pursuit of wholeness. Read all about it in Not the Big Sleep, the author’s latest foray into the unknown. Daryl Sharp, B.Sc., B.J., M.A., is the publisher of Inner City Books and the author of twelve other titles in this series. ISBN 1-894574-16-8. Index 128 pp. 2006. $25.00 This engaging sequel to Not the Big Sleep (title 112) is a salute to relationships, the primacy of eros over logos, and the importance of consciousness. In song and dance, and with the help of Prof. Adam Brillig and various lovelies, Sharp leads readers joyfully through the thicket of some basic Jungian concepts, including the nuances of typology, archetypes, complexes and the enigmatic process of individuation versus individualism. This is Book 2 in The SleepNot Trilogy. Watch for Book 3, Eyes Wide Open: Late Thoughts, in 2007. Daryl Sharp, B.Sc., B.J., M.A., is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich and the author of 14 other books in this series ISBN 9781894574181. Index 160 pp. 2007. $25.00 This fnal book in The SleepNot Trilogy (with titles 112 and 115) favors readers with new glimpses into the soul of the author and the many life, love and death issues, personal and collective, that he grapples with. With candor, insight and humor, interweaving his own story with psychological verities and Jung’s concepts, Sharp and Prof. Adam Brillig chart the course, and trials, of individuation that are part and parcel of everyone’s journey through life. There are those who dismiss Jung as being too heady or mystical. Daryl Sharp brings Jung’s ideas alive and makes them both understandable and palatable. He stretches gold. —Marion Woodman, author of The Pregnant Virgin. A Jungian with a sense of humor? Not an oxymoron, but Daryl Sharp. Here is an author able to put complex ideas into words and real-life situations that laymen can understand. It’e a rare ability. —Robertson Davies, author of Fifth Business and Bred in the Bone. Daryl Sharp, B.J., B.Sc., M.A., is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, the author of many other titles in this series, and publisher of Inner City Books. ISBN 9781894574211. Index 128 pp. 2008. $25.00 From the author’s Preface: C.G. Jung died in 1961 at the age of 86, but his legacy lives on, mightily. His writings are like fine, full-bodied wines—they mature with age, as do we all if we pay sufficient attention to ourselves. This book celebrates Jung. It presents spirited passages in his Collected Works (CW) together with my experiential commentaries on their psychological significance and contemporary relevance. The selections here are of course just the tip of the wine cellar, so to speak, that is Jung’s legacy and, by extension, the backdrop to the attitude toward the psyche that generally informs the modern practice of analytical psychology. Some of the material here may be familiar to readers from other contexts. That is to be welcomed. Consider that we all come back to psychological writings anew, according to where we are on our spiral path of self-understanding. For myself, after thirty years practicing as a Jungian analyst, and editing and publishing books by many colleagues, I am still struck by Jung’s all-encompassing wisdom and insights into the workings of the human psyche. Indeed, although I am quite familiar with all the essays in Jung’s Collected Works, wherever I open a volume it is as if I had never read it before. My knees become weak and I am inspirited anew. Jung Uncorked is published in two volumes. Book One explicates and comments on essays from CW volumes 1-9i. Book Two does the same with CW volumes 9ii to 18. In order to cover Jung’s wide range of interests, the chapters in the two Books deal with one essay from each volume of the Collected Works, sequentially from CW 1 to CW 18. Daryl Sharp, B.J., B.Sc., M.A., is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, the author of many other titles in this series, and publisher of Inner City Books. ISBN 9781894574228. Index 128 pp. 2008. $25.00 See description for Book One Daryl Sharp, B.J., B.Sc., M.A., is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, the author of many other titles in this series, and publisher of Inner City Books. ISBN 9781894574242. Index. 128 pp. 2009. $25.00 This continues the acclaimed series (see titles 120, 121), explicating different essays in Jung's Collected Works, vols. 1-9i. For excerpts see the newsletter Jung at Heart #49. ISBN 9781894574273. Index 160 pp. 2009. $25.00 This volume concludes the author’s adventurous Uncorked series (see titles 120, 121, 123) explicating various essays in C. G. Jung’s Collected Works. Each chapter presents spirited passages from an essay in one volume of Jung’s CW, with experiential commentaries on their psychological and contemporary relevance. ISBN 9781894574310. Sewn. Index. 128 pp. 2010. $25.00 From the author’s Introduction: This book is inspired by Jung’s cogent observation on the serious nature of nonsense: “People sometimes think that analysis will take the place of life; they protect themselves in that way against much nonsense that might be lived. But mind you, if you don’t live your nonsense you will never have lived at all, and the meaning of life is surely that it is lived, not avoided.” Nonsense does not always involve Eros, and the erotic is not always nonsense. But in my experience the two have generally gone hand in hand. This book recounts some of my own and others’ nonsense and hopes to give some insights into what that might mean in life. Nonsense is not necessarily frivolous, foolish or sinful. It may be politically or socially incorrect, but it is often a pointer to the essence of one’s personality, which is what we Jungians call individuation—becoming who you were meant to be. This is far, and only the swift reach it and are delighted. A Jungian with a sense of humor? Not an oxymoron, but Daryl Sharp. Here is an author able to put complex ideas into words and real-life situations that laymen can understand. It is a rare ability. —Robertson Davies, author of Fifth Business, The Manticore and The Cunning Man. |
