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The Portable Jung by CG Jung, ed. by Joseph Campbell

Of course, with the drive towards ereaders, the portability of a book might not be of consequence, but it’s fun to carry around a book of Jung’s writing like he’s your own personal guru.  Somebody tells you about an encounter or a dream or a movie, and you can say, hang on, let me consult with my colleague Herr Dr. Jung.

O.K., so you probably won’t go around carrying The Portable Jung.  But consultable it still is.

Except that it has no index.  Why does it have no index?  I have no idea, but it is a hindrance.

However, the way it is laid out, and the nature of the chapter titles is clear and concise.  

While you will find reference to religion and psychology on nearly every page (and the overlap of the two, as Jung often saw little distinction), the focus on each is readily found by looking at the table of contents.

I was going to find some key passages to quote, but instead have become absorbed in the chapter entitled, “The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man”, having now wasted much free wireless time.

 
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Myths to Live by by Joseph Campbell
Thou Art That by Joseph Campbell
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation by Joseph Campbell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion by Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell Bill Moyers
The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade
Pauli and Jung: The Meeting of Two Great Minds by David Lindorff
C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse by Miguel Serrano
Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth by Robert A Johnson
The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead by Stephan A Hoeller
The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library) by Walter Kaufmann 
Freud And Beyond: A History Of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought by Stephan A Mitchell
Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences by Abraham H Maslow 
Jung: A Biography by Deirdre Bair
Jungian Dream Interpretation: A Handbook of Theory and Practice by James A Hall 
Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim

Other works by Carl Gustav Jung*:

Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal 
Aspects of the Feminine
Answer to Job
The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious 
Symbols of Transformation 
The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga 
Memories, Dreams, Reflections 
Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self 
Modern Man in Search of a Soul 
The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche 
Mandala Symbolism 
Psychological Types 
Flying Saucers
Civilization in Transition 
The Development of Personality 
Aspects of the Masculine 
Psychology and Alchemy 
The Red Book 
Jung on Active Imagination 
Jung on Mythology 
Two Essays on Analytical Psychology 
The Spirit in Man, Art, & Literature 
The Essential Jung 
The Undiscovered Self
Alchemical Studies 
Jung on Death and Immortality 
Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 
The Psychology of the Transference 
The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings 
Psychology and the Occult
Jung on Christianity 
On the Nature of the Psyche 
The Zofingia Lectures
Psychology and Western Religion 
Analytical Psychology 
Psyche and Symbol 
Jung on Evil 
Freud and Psychoanalysis 
The Basic Writings of C. G. Jung 
Psychiatric Studies 
The Practice of Psychotherapy 
Psychology and Religion 
C.G. Jung Speaking 
Dreams 
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle 
Mysterium Coniunctionis 

*Note: This list is not exhaustive.  For the most part it only contains works still in print in the U.S., however you can still find many of his other works used.

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