My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Even though the book is supposed to be an introduction for beginners, a kind of guide for dummies, it gives a lot of complex information. The book tries to explain all the main ideas of Carl Jung, who was a Swiss psychologist, and psychiatrist who founded analytic psychology; such as the collective unconscious, archetypes, the conscious, and the unconscious. Moreover, the text is indeed a bit difficult to digest; the whole concept that the Jungian world and its Analytical Psychology brings to knowledge.
As a new reader of Jung, it is hard to not want to learn more, going deeper into subjects about how the Ego and the Shadow work among other concepts. For example, the book explains how Ego represents the light of consciousness and the Shadow as its own “dark side,” which the ego wishes to hide from others, meaning the unconscious. Furthermore, it names the alchemical studies, how the alchemist named Unus Mundus, “One World,” the union of psyche and matter (spirit, soul, and body); an experience of oneness that Jung attempted to elucidate through his concept of synchronicity.
Synchronicity is a concept of meaningful coincidences, a-causal connection between psychic states and objective events; an inconstant connection through ‘meaning,’ while causality is seen as a constant connection through effect.
Introducing Jung: Graphic Guide explains the trinity of classical physics: time, space, and causality, plus how Jung wanted to add synchronicity as a 4th term. Other main topics are developed and underlying main ideas might continue until the end of the book.
Nevertheless, despite the difficulty to understand this guide, eventually, a curious mind may want to become a Jung pupil by finally trying to understand it all and keep on digging into his books.
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