Eye opening

You know a book is good when it leads you to question your innermost beliefs and ideas.

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Amazing insights into Jung's view of psychology

This book is certainly not suited to laymen or people completely unfamiliar with the field of psychology. In his essay, Jung describes the search of modern (early 20th century) man for transcendant meaning in his life, as a break from 19th century traditionalism. He relates his views and arguments in contrast to the school of Freud and Adler. Overall a very educating but quite challenging piece of literature.

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Advanced ideas, mixed with outworn views

There is much food for thought in this audiobook. Some hypotheses impress us with their depth, especially comsidering that this book was composed about 100 years ago.
At times though, it's hard to discriminate between wise ideas and antiquated/deprecated viewpoints. His speculations about the aspects of personality are often quoted today, but have long been replaced by the Big Five model due to empirical evidence.
Nonetheless, Dr. Jung ends many lectures admitting to his fallibility, which is another sign of his wisdon.

And finally: Christopher Prince did a wonderful job of giving Dr. Jung a voice in this audiobook!

Great Book, Horrible Narrator

It may be my European taste but the American speaker sounds horribly monotonous and uninterested to me. The way he emphasizes is unbearable to me.