Carl Jung, Matters of the Heart
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:54 am
Carl Jung is the writer who made some sense of a mystery world, to me.
I read him in my early 20's after stumbling on a book of his, "Memories, Dreams and Reflections", in a fruit and vegi market place.
I think I was slightly mad, confused and slightly bi-polar or manic depressive or whatever, but not "normal", thankfully, and a budding Poet to boot.
So Jung was the man for my moment.
Well, so what, you may say...
I was shown this wonderful site (by my daughter) that has documentaries on everything; and once again I stumbled on Jung.
This is a great vid, old interviews of him and the women he loved.
On reflection, understanding Leonard Cohen's artistic work, for me, were always adventures via Jung's map of the mind.
I love Cohen
But I love Jung even more as he gave me a key to "The Window" and "The open door" of myself and I feel to Leonard's songs as well. The door and the window that Cohen sings about.
If you warm to the mystery of leonard, you may warm to the life and work of Jung.
Leonard has his writing and music, Jung has his Psychology and his Bollingen.
"Matter of Heart."
( http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/matter-of-heart/ )
...for what it is worth,
He helped me immensely in my quest for happiness.
His books, Memories dreams and reflections, Answer to Job and The Individuation Process, are never far from my arm or my mind.
MatbbgJ....and I am a jungian belly-button-gazer at that!
I read him in my early 20's after stumbling on a book of his, "Memories, Dreams and Reflections", in a fruit and vegi market place.
I think I was slightly mad, confused and slightly bi-polar or manic depressive or whatever, but not "normal", thankfully, and a budding Poet to boot.
So Jung was the man for my moment.
Well, so what, you may say...
I was shown this wonderful site (by my daughter) that has documentaries on everything; and once again I stumbled on Jung.
This is a great vid, old interviews of him and the women he loved.
On reflection, understanding Leonard Cohen's artistic work, for me, were always adventures via Jung's map of the mind.
I love Cohen
But I love Jung even more as he gave me a key to "The Window" and "The open door" of myself and I feel to Leonard's songs as well. The door and the window that Cohen sings about.
If you warm to the mystery of leonard, you may warm to the life and work of Jung.
Leonard has his writing and music, Jung has his Psychology and his Bollingen.
"Matter of Heart."
( http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/matter-of-heart/ )
...for what it is worth,
He helped me immensely in my quest for happiness.
His books, Memories dreams and reflections, Answer to Job and The Individuation Process, are never far from my arm or my mind.
MatbbgJ....and I am a jungian belly-button-gazer at that!