Decoding Jungs Metaphysics, Bernardo Kastrup
Decoding Jungs Metaphysics, Bernardo Kastrup
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Decoding Jung's Metaphysics
The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe

Author: Bernardo Kastrup

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Unabridged: 4 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/22/2022


Synopsis

More than an insightful psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung was the twentieth century's greatest articulator of the primacy of mind in nature, a view whose origins vanish behind the mists of time. Underlying Jung's extraordinary body of work, and providing a foundation for it, there is a broad and sophisticated system of metaphysical thought. This system, however, is only implied in Jung's writings, so as to shield his scientific persona from accusations of philosophical speculation. The present book scrutinizes Jung's work to distil and reveal that extraordinary, hidden metaphysical treasure: for Jung, mind and world are one and the same entity; reality is fundamentally experiential, not material; the psyche builds and maintains its body, not the other way around; and the ultimate meaning of our sacrificial lives is to serve God by providing a reflecting mirror to God's own instinctive mentation. Embodied in this compact volume is a journey of discovery through Jungian thoughtscapes never before revealed with the depth, force, and scholarly rigor you are about to encounter.

About Bernardo Kastrup

Bernardo Kastrup has a PhD in philosophy and another in computer engineering. He has been a scientist in some of the world's foremost scientific laboratories. His main interests are metaphysics and philosophy of mind. He lives in Veldhoven, Netherlands.


Reviews

Reading Jung directly, and through JBP, I reached largely the same conclusions as Kastrup does. Jung is essentially a philosopher following the German idealist tradition; Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, who hides his metaphysics within a supposed naturalistic and empirical framework. This conc......more

Žvilgsnis į Jungą-filosofą, anot autoriaus, monistinį idealistą. Gražiai išlukštenta.......more

Goodreads review by Marco

This book was ok, if often a little dry. I should have suspected from the subtitle. And from the title, for that matter. With that being said, I like Bernardo's views very much and follow somehow avidly his interviews on YouTube. If there's a guy worth checking out it is him. As I'm writing this I'm......more

Goodreads review by Steve

Reading this book was both a continuation and a commencement. By way of continuation, it forwards my project to become better acquainted with the thought of Carl Jung, the great Swiss thinker and practitioner of depth psychology. My first formal step was completing Gary Lachman's Jung the Mystic. La......more