Psicologia del Graal

This book, by the wife of psychologist Carl Jung and one of her students, uses his concepts to explore one of the classic “archetypal” myths of the Western world. It’s a pretty interesting read, although some parts will be more obscure depending on your familiarity with the Jungian approach and with Leggi tutto

April 2012 re-read this dense volume which unpacks the Grail legend from a psychological and symbolic perspective. The amazing von Franz took over the project that Emma Jung had worked on for thirty years, dying before writing it all. It feels very much like a life's work, deep and complicated. Some Leggi tutto

The Grail Legend, a book written by Drs. Emma Jung and Marie-Louise Von Franz, is a study about the various versions of the Grail legend, making an interpretation of all those myth stories from a psychological point of view and basing its conclusions from a Jungian perspective. I have found this wor Leggi tutto

Becoming interested in C.G. Jung entailed getting into such diverse topics as alchemy, astrology, gnosticism, classical mythology, eastern religions, cultural anthropology and even psychiatry. One topic I'd previously been exposed to was the grail legend, but then only from a reworked edition of Mal Leggi tutto

A challenging read, that truly needs to be read more than once before the beginning of understanding is possible. The first read will introduce the well educated reader to so much history and so many ideas that until one had read the book one does not have enough knowledge to understand what one is

A delightfully thorough examination of all the Graal Mythos' many root symbolisms; THE properly exhaustive staging point for further research excursions.

This is a reference book for me, i am always going back to it, one of the great books of all time.....

Tough to read, tough to rate. It took me two years to finish this book, because of the onerous summaries of the various stories. This book is a monumental volume containing summaries and analyses of the various 'continuations' of the Grail legend, starting with Chrétien de Troyes. It offers an overvi Leggi tutto

Dragones, tesoros, recompensas, búsquedas y el significado del viaje. Pese a que ciertos banales conceptos son entendidos y sopesados en la vida diaria, Marie-Louise von Franz logra explicar en detalle cada símbolo, cada aspecto, cada parte de viaje del héroe en la búsqueda de la razón última del po Leggi tutto