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The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
What are archetypes? What is the collective unconscious? Both these concepts are two of Jung’s most famous and exciting ideas.
In this volume, taken from the Collective Works, Jung describes and elaborates upon these two central concepts of his psychology. Included are essays on specific archetypes, a study of the process of individuation, and an account of mandala symbolism. The Journal of Analytical Psychology in its review of the text commented: ‘An eloquent witness to Jung’s greatness of mind and heart. His idea of the archetype involves profound attitudes towards man’s existence and intimates values through which very many people have found a new significance in their lives.’ In its original print format, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious was profusely illustrated with many illustrations in full colour, and these are all available on a companion PDF which can be downloaded with this recording.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- placidhead
- 08-07-21
Utter Nonesense
The narrator seems to be doing an impression of a robot and Jung's theories all sound like the ramblings of a madman. If there's anything intelligible in this book it eluded me completely.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-03-21
Find a different narrator for this
The worst narrator I have ever listened to, literally ruined the experience. Find a different version
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- Richard Dunne
- 05-11-21
Machine read, not a human
Either Martyn Swain is cheating a little using Amazon Polly / Dragon Naturally speaking or actually doesn't exist as a real person. You'll notice from the outset in this title the jagged inhuman synthesized staccata of a half decent text to speech program, and nothing more. Whatever about the actual content of the book, I can't bring myself to listen to this. Avoid, buy the book or find another audio copy where a human is doing the reading.
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- Andrew McNally
- 18-03-21
Baptism into Jungian Theory
Great place to start with Jung before you get stuck into the real masterpieces of Aion, Psychology & Alchemy and Mysterium Coniunctionis
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- Will
- 23-06-23
Ruined by AI narrator
Classic cheap way for Amazon to profit of a key important work.
Don’t waste your time and money
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- C Maasz
- 27-03-22
Delivery of text makes it impossible to listen with satisfaction
Some kind of spliced auto delivery of the voice/reading makes this a complete waste of money/credits. Intricate and sometimes complex ideas just do not come across as the staccato robotic vocal is a constant barrier to flow and pace of the natural text.
Very poor. Do not select in my view.
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- cinderella
- 06-11-23
I'm confused
unfortunately I was looking for that book for so long and just found it here however I couldn't continue listening to it because the narration is hard to make me follow through.
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- Future Life Solutions
- 27-06-23
First 75% was interesting and insightful
Personally I would skip the whole last section on Mandela interpretation I found it lacked any empirical back up
I can confirm Martins reading style and phrasing took me a little while to adapt to but got used to it after the first couple of hours and wasn’t a distraction
He is definitely not a robot by the way
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- Reshad Bukhory
- 23-06-23
Not too bad but missing a section
I am listening to this alongside reading the equivalent book i.e. Jung's collected works volume 9 part 1 published by Routledge. Up to this point I have enjoyed it despite the voice being a bit robotic.
I have just got to page 335 and the audio skips to page 355. Nineteen pages worth of audio are strangely missing. The missing pages are Jung's commentary on the pictures 8-24 drawn by patient X plus the conclusion of the section.
A bit of a shame. Spoke to customer service who were helpful but mystified.
Just be aware of this before you purchase.
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- Let Them Eat Cake
- 26-05-23
A great work, an awful audio edit…
Carl Jung’s work is rich and far reaching in its exploration, sadly spoiled as a listening experience by an appalling audio edit which sounds robotic, stilted and disjointed in the extreme. Very poor.
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