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C G Jung's The Red Book
 

offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2010-12-17 14:43 [#02401536]
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The Making of The Red Book

It says it's a "making of", but it has me thinking of some
Hollywood trailer for the new National Treasure. I find it
hilarious, especially around 30 sec ("decades has passed
since anyone has seen this
"), and how he caresses the
book. A commenter sums it up quite well:

"LOL The way they are talking about this it sounds like a
magic grimorie from a horror movie or something."


 

offline big from lsg on 2010-12-17 14:57 [#02401537]
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Would Jung have wanted his work to be mythologized like
this?

Anyway KOYAANSISQATSI


 

offline big from lsg on 2010-12-17 15:00 [#02401539]
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A commenter makes a nice point:
"Perhaps those who think this work is satanic merely don't
understand it: Glass is exemplifying Koyananisqatsi, or "out
of balance" by reversing the roles between the organ, a
usually low and unexpressive instrument, and voices, which
are highly expressive. Instead, the voices are low and
unchanging (like the organ), while the organ is
producing the most emotion (almost as if the organ is
singing). By reversing these roles, Glass is effectively
able to create Koyaanisqatsi."


 

offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2010-12-17 15:49 [#02401542]
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I reckon he'd be rolling around in his grave if he saw that
video. It's surprising how many younger people has bought it
(apparently), it's quite expensive. It seems to me to be the
same lot who's hooked on all the 2012 nonsense and new age
feelgood-ism.


 

offline big from lsg on 2010-12-17 15:57 [#02401544]
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I reckon Jung has been important for new age coming to be in
the first place.

He's still interesting though: combining Western ideas with
Eastern ones. Maybe I'll look into this red book.


 

offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2010-12-17 16:18 [#02401549]
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Well, yeah, maybe, I've always felt it has more to do with
The-Beatles-going-to-India, that sort of thing. ;)


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2010-12-17 16:23 [#02401550]
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Dumb film about dumb Jung


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2010-12-17 16:24 [#02401551]
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Why are there people who take Jung seriously? Is there
something I'm not getting?


 

offline big from lsg on 2010-12-17 16:40 [#02401554]
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Which psychologists would you recommend then? Oliver Sax?

http://mental-health.families.com/blog/suicide-my-thoughts-
on-one-case


 

offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2010-12-17 16:43 [#02401555]
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It offers an alternative to the
did-you-have-a-tough-childhood psychology. It makes our
world and dreams a little more magical and anchored in a
mythological past.

I suppose.


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2010-12-17 16:50 [#02401557]
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Oliver Sacks, yeah I guess? He seems alright but that's
because he's a neurologist. It's hard to think of a
psychoanalyst who's not at least a little full of shit.


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2010-12-17 17:11 [#02401561]
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CG Jung. Carl Gustav... But the name was originally
"Computer Graphics" Jung, who was a CG hologram; autonomous
and intelligent, developed in 2035 and sent to the past with
future knowledge.


 


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