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Understanding Masculine Psychology

this book made me re-think about what love, relationships and companionship mean. He mentioned 'stirring the oatmeal' as a metaphor of human love, and it is absolutely true. Here's my favourite part of the book : “Many years ago a wise friend gave me a name for human love. She called it ‘stirring-th......more

In this re-telling of the myth of Tristan and Iseult, Robert A. Johnson uses Jungian psychology to re-define what love should and can be. Johnson traces the evolution of romantic love from its Cather/troubador origins in the twelfth century to modern times. In medieval times, passionate love, in its e......more

As I tried to rate this book just now, I hovered over the stars that read "It was okay" and "I liked it," back and forth, for a while. It was okay. And I liked it. I didn't like it nearly as much as I liked Robert Johnson's similarly titled books, He and She. We follows the same structure as the oth......more

this book is just fine imo. i found the layers and layers of myths and symbolism really murky and difficult to follow after a while - just can’t help but feel like the same points could have been made without all the metaphors. but that’s jungian archetypal psychology for ya i guess! also was kinda......more

I didn't really enjoy this book. Filled with a lot of stuff I didn't really understand and very little practical knowledge of which I didn't already know. I did enjoy the last chapter though.......more