Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction

I never care to write reviews but if I didn't write a review of this book it would have been unjust not only to the author but also to the wider public. Bought this masterpiece a month ago and have read more than half of it. The learning value in terms of understanding of ourselves and others is many times more that it's cost. Rather than reading those fake self helps people should read such authors who have spent years studying the subject. The antecedents of the author speaks for itself. He is the vice president of international association of analytical psychology. It is not easy to understand Carl Jung. It is not easy to understand psychology either. But this work crystalises the essentials most lucidly and in a very interesting manner. Strongly Recommended.

Great book. Wanted it for so long. Awesome quality of pages. Go for it.

Bon livre

Frente a tantas mistificaciones que circulan de la psicología de Jung, el libro explica con claridad el carácter altamente intelectual y los parámetros científicos en el que este autor desarrolló todo su trabajo. Aclara y organiza los conceptos esenciales y ofrece una perspectiva profunda y, a la vez, accesible tanto de las ideas de Jung como del funcionamiento de la psique humana.

Amazing survey, summary and explanation of Jung’s complex map of the soul. Stein brings insight and wisdom to his interpretations of Jung’s writings.

This book, a sort of handbook to the psychology of the late C.G. Jung, was first published in 1998 but is perhaps even more relevant today than when it was written. Written by Murray Stein, a Jungian analyst of considerable prominence in his field, who began serious study of Jung just after Jung died, this book presents Jung as a visionary but also as a more systematic thinker than many people think when encountering the complexity of Jung's writings. This book thus complements in a special way the many fine introductions that already existed to Jung's work. Restating classical Jungian approaches in a modern context, it also complements some of the efforts of other writers to re-vision his ideas in the past two decades. Also some readers who have been captivated by the imagery of Jung's Red Book since its posthumous publication in 2012 may find this book a handy if demanding summary of the psychology Jung made of these images. Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction also inspired recent music of the Korean K-pop R&B band BTS, which in turn inspired a new book by Stein published in 2020 by Chiron Publications. It's called Map of the Soul: 7: Persona, Shadow and Ego in the world of BTS.

I heard about this book from a YouTuber and by the time the video was done, I had already ordered it online. Not disappointed. I very much like how it represents a comprehensive view of all of Jung's main works.