Author(s): Stevens, Anthony
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Biographies
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA329812
Barcode: 9789626342985
Release Date: 09/2003

STEVENS, A.: Jung - A Very Short Introduction (Abridged)

Anthony Stevens argues that Jung’s visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing in Western society. This concise introduction explains clearly the basic concepts of Jungian psychology; the collective unconscious, complex, archetype, shadow, persona, anima, animus and the individuation of the Self. Anthony Stevens examines Jung’s views on such disparate subjects as myth, religion, alchemy, ‘synchronicity’, and the psychology of gender differences. He devotes separate chapters to the stages of life, Jung’s theory of psychological types, the interpretation of dreams and the practice of Jungian analysis. Jung’s individual theories remain among the most fascinating of twentieth-century psychologists. This introduction will prove popular among a wide range of listeners—outside of the psychological fraternity.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Stevens, Anthony - Author
Pigott-Smith, Tim (Reader)
1 Jung - the Man and his Psychology 02:54
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2 Background 03:32
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3 An only child until his sister Gertrud was born 03:27
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4 Jung's adult delight in solitude 04:21
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5 Matters came to a head with Carl's confirmation 02:34
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6 Student years 03:02
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7 His dedication to scholarship 04:29
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8 Years of apprenticeship 04:58
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9 Friendship with Freud 03:22
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10 As time passed Jung's differences with Freud became harder to conceal 04:04
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11 Publication of these views provoked A Major rift with Freud 02:20
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12 Married life 03:46
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13 Confrontation with the unconscious 04:26
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14 By 'the reality of the psyche' 04:36
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15 Creative illness 05:15
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16 Individuation: the realisation of the self 03:50
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17 One crucial event that occurred after his mid-life crisis was his 'discovery' of alchemy 04:23
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18 Ageing and growth 03:55
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19 At the age of 82 he wrote 03:22
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20 Archetype and the collective unconscious 03:20
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21 What Jung was proposing was no less than a fundamental concept 02:06
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Disc 2
1 To a limited extent Jung's archetyes resemble Plato's Ideas 01:19
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2 The actualisation of archetypes 04:22
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3 Archetypes versus cultural transmission 02:17
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4 The psychoid archetypes and the unus mundus 02:39
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5 Synchronicity 00:52
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6 The stages of life 02:56
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7 The Self 01:23
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8 The Ego 03:00
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9 The Persona 01:34
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10 The Shadow 04:10
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11 However, the acquisition of a moral complex imposes severe restraints on the Self 03:24
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12 Sex and gender 03:15
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13 As the parent/child relationship matures within the traditional family setting 02:09
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14 Anima and animus 01:47
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15 A self-regulating system 01:09
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16 A programme for life 02:16
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17 Archetypal expectations 02:32
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18 Rites of passage 02:26
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19 The dymanics of progress 01:11
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20 Love and marriage 03:22
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21 The stroke of noon 03:05
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22 The individuation of the self 03:41
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23 Psychological types 01:54
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24 The four functions 02:32
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25 The two attitudes 00:53
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26 Eight psychological types 01:27
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27 Use of typology 04:45
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28 Dreams 04:25
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29 After the break with Freud and his encounter with the unconscious 02:12
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30 Pure nature 01:07
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31 Compensatory function 01:16
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32 Symbolism 03:19
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Disc 3
1 Interpretation 04:53
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2 Personal context 01:50
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3 Cultural context 02:08
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4 Archetypal context 05:00
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5 Therapy 01:20
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6 Illness 03:34
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7 This was even more true in the case of neurosis 02:56
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8 It is true that Jung's emphasis is invariably on the intra-psychic life on the individual 04:33
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9 The patient 02:57
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10 Treatment 03:47
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11 To what did he attribute the 'general neurosis of our age' 03:32
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12 Jung elucidated the analytic process in the light of his alchemical studies 03:01
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13 With regard to the frequency of sessions 04:05
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14 Active imagination requires a state of reverie 02:41
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15 The therapist 02:45
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16 Jung greatly extended the Freudian view of the transference 03:20
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17 Jung's alleged anti-Semitism 03:27
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18 The Jews who knew him best have all come staunchly to his defence 02:15
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19 The summing-up 04:07
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20 Jung's gift for transcending the confines of his own consciousness 03:22
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21 When he eventually discovered in himself the security that was absent from his childhood environment 04:19
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22 Analytical psychology can make no claim 05:45
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Total Playing Time: 03:52:18