Van Der Post Laurens: Jung i priča o našem dobu

Name: Jung i priča o našem dobu
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Author: Van Der Post Laurens

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Author: Van Der Post Laurens
Publisher: Fedon
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Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 41847

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Jung i priča o našem dobu

Van Der Post Laurens

Summary

Laurens Van Der Post: Jung and the Story of Our Age

Laurens Van der Post's book, genre-wise, belongs to biographies. This, then, is the biography of Carl Gustav Jung. Van der Post, however, is not one of the professional biographers who "know" how to write biographies, who have preset schemes, and now, like open drawers, fill them with collected material. This biography is born out of the deepest respect for Jung. From that obsession that introduces us to the necessity of encountering a work that changes our life. For this reason, Van der Post, almost apologetically, says that he begins his book about Jung with a story about himself, about his first encounter with this inexhaustible work and its creator. However, it is precisely this "I", which intervenes in the work on Jung, that is the pledge of this book. Instead of a professional, "objective" approach, we get a "personal" work whose credibility is guaranteed by the writer's "I". Instead of a cold review, we get a passionate story. The text itself was written by the hand of a writer who was decisively influenced by Jung's work. This can be seen in the choice of topics, but even more so in the choice of motifs and the constant questioning of the deepest sources from which Jung's work springs. It is as if Jung is interpreting himself. But therein lies Van der Post's mastery. Exactly where it seems to us that there is the least of it, the writer is the most alive because he managed to put his own text, without hesitation, in front of himself. Finally, the whole book is steeped in Jungian teaching which says that we will only understand a certain work or its creator if we also understand the era in which it was created. This is why a book about Jung is also a book about his time. But that's not all either. To understand Jung and his era means to understand ourselves and the time in which we live. About the same way that Van der Post, trying to penetrate into Jung, also penetrated into himself. (P9)

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