Lectures on Jung's Typology

by Marie-Louise von Franz, James Hillman

Two world-renowned psychologists, Marie-Louise von Franz and James Hillman, give detailed accounts of C.G. Jung's personality types.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Spirituality, Reference, Philosophy

184 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 1971

About the author

Marie-Louise von Franz was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar.
Von Franz worked with Carl Jung, whom she met in 1933 and knew until his death in 1961. Jung believed in the unity of the psychological and material worlds, i.e., they are one and the same, just different manifestations. He also believed that this concept of the unus mundus could be investigated through research on the archetypes of the natural numbers. Due to his age, he turned the problem over to von Franz. Two of her books, Number and Time and Psyche and Matter deal with this research.
Von Franz, in 1968, was the first to publish that the mathematical structure of DNA is analogous to that of the I Ching. She cites the reference to the publication in an expanded essay Symbols of the Unus Mundus, published in her book Psyche and Matter. In addition to her many books, Von Franz recorded a series of films in 1987 titled The Way of the Dream with her student Fraser Boa.
Von Franz founded the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. In The Way of the Dream she claims to have interpreted over 65,000 dreams. Von Franz also wrote over 20 volumes on Analytical psychology, most notably on fairy tales as they relate to Archetypal or Depth Psychology, most specifically by amplification of the themes and characters. She also wrote on subjects such as alchemy, discussed from the Jungian, psychological perspective, and active imagination, which could be described as conscious dreaming. In Man and His Symbols, von Franz described active imagination as follows: "Active imagination is a certain way of meditating imaginatively, by which one may deliberately enter into contact with the unconscious and make a conscious connection with psychic phenomena."

Reviews

[Jeremy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This gets five stars for Marie-Louise von Franz, James Hillman's contribution to Jungian typology are practically irrelevant in my opinion.

Von Franz does an exquisite job of delineating the inferior function in each type, how it fits within Jung's model of the psyche, its role in adult psychological growth, and useful methods on how patients can access their inferior function.

She illuminates her arguments via case histories, mythological analogy, and anecdotal observations. This is hardly a rock-solid foundation for fact, but to hell with the facts--modern science has yet to outstrip the usefulness of the Jungians' anecdotal insights, despite "Psychological Types" nearing its centennial. I would be more skeptical if I hadn't observed and applied these principles for myself, but the laboratory that is life continues to vindicate these findings.

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Marie-Louise von Franz lectures were amazing. Hillman writes unnecessarily in a complicated way. Will give 5/5 because of MLvF

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

First Hillman writing I came across, "The Feeling Function." I didn't understand as many as half the words but his writing somehow lit a fire in my capacity to imagine, and perhaps that confusion was a precise necessity to ignite the aether of the imaginal....

[Sophia · Rating 3 out of 5]

As always, the discussions from von Franz were insightful and clearly analyzed. The examples that she gave were also extremely helpful for one to understand the four functions and the inferior functions. Hillman's discourse on the feeling function, on the other hand, was dry and not as helpful. He did pick a difficult topic to elaborate on, but I did not feel like it added any more insights or value to the book. I would rather have had von Franz's insights on the feeling function discussed instead.

[Eugene Pustoshkin · Rating 2 out of 5]

В «Лекции по юнговской типологии» входят лекции Марии-Луизы фон Франц, посвящённые подчинённой функции, и лекции Джеймса Хиллмана о конкретной чувствующей функции. Тогда как лекции фон Франц показались мне качественными и интересными, лекции Хиллмана навели тоскливое состояние и вызвали ноль резонанса, показавшись бессвязной плохой литературой, в практическом плане практически бесполезной. Маленький объём книги обманчив: тогда как фон Франц читается довольно легко, от Хиллмана засыпаешь. Как обычно, непрофессионально выполненное издание «Института общегуманитарных исследований»: плохая вёрстка, множество опечаток.

[Zachary Waltz · Rating 3 out of 5]

At the time, this book made advances on the unconscious (4th or inferior) function. Unlike other typology books, the information contained here mostly still holds today, probably because it is dealing with the unconscious, which is underdeveloped and so more uniform across types and times.

In addition, Marie-Louise von Franz's style and her symbloism make this work engaging in its own right. I will always remember her description of the horse as an image of the unconscious, the nose as an image of intuition, and the image of the unconsious as a room with a door on each wall in which three doors can closed but one will forever remain shut.

[Thaís Da Silva · Rating 2 out of 5]

li esse como se fosse um romance de ficção científica. observando a minha vivência, e a vivência das pessoas ao meu redor, achei ultrapassado demais. posso mudar de opinião algum dia, quem sabe. a impressão que ficou é que, se eu for levar ao pé da letra essa teoria, vou ter que ficar correndo atrás do meu próprio rabo, colocando todo mundo em caixinhas claustrofóbicas e esmagadoras .. achei muito limitado e retrogrado. tá na hora de alguém contemporâneo re-escrever

[Raissa Raninne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Li como recomendação da minha psicóloga. Pedi a ela um livro de psicologia para leigos e ela me passou esse. Eu AMEI!

É um livro técnico e precisei pesquisar algumas coisas no Google para entender melhor, mas é ótimo para ter um overview da psicologia jungiana. Recomendo!!

[Mephistopheles · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a fantastic book of essays. Marie Louise von Franz's was, as usual, clear and elucidating, and Hillman's longer lecture on the feeling function was extremely valuable in clarifying what the feeling function is and how it works.

[Jan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great. Mostly marie loius von franz. Amazing books

[Daniel Brandt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Uma análise detalhada das questões que o livro trata: A Função Inferior e a Função Sentimento.

[Nurzhan Saken · Rating 5 out of 5]

MLvF's part: 5/5. Her detailed descriptions of the types and their inferior functions led to useful insights and made me feel seen (as always with her writing).

JH's part: 4/5. Had to power through the beginning (not a fan of history), but the insight into the feeling function was incredible. I can now differentiate negative/positive feelings from superior/inferior feeling as a function – and see how they interact. I also learned more about how the mother complex and the anima/animus manifest in cognition (in the feeling function).

[Siael Carvalho · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eu li outros 2 livros que fazem referência a este livro. Gostei bastante da explicação sobre os perceptivos e intuitivos introvertidos. Com certeza, vou repassar alguns trechos para conhecidos e ver se eles se identificam com as explicações.

[Joli Hamilton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Classic work, von Franz's essay is the most readable I've come across on the inferior function.

[Shelby M. (Read and Find Out) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars for von Franz, 2 stars for Hillman. 2.75 overall. I cannot deal with amount of psycholanalytic language that Hillman uses in the second half of his part; there's even an entire section on the mother complex!