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Interestingly, back in the 1980s and early 90s the people studying Jung and trying to apply him were mainly English Literature professors, because they were interested in mythology, and Jung gave them a way to understand mythology; but that popularity faded away too. His books, Jung and the Alchemical Imagination, Healing the Wounded God, and The Practice of Ally Work, are great guides for anyone interested in what Carl Jung (1875-1961) called "the spiritual problem of modern man". Today some historians attack Jung and alchemy, essentially by saying that Jung made up the alchemical symbolism, and that alchemy has nothing to do with symbolic reality anyway. Regulars Over the past three hundred years, Western societies have embarked on a path of relentless scientific discovery and technological development that has led to an unprecedented increase in living standards and material wealth. [Extracted from the article] |
