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Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies
by
C.G. Jung,
R.F.C. Hull
While Jung is known mainly for his theories on the nature of the unconscious mind, he did have an interest in the paranormal. In this essay, Jung applies his analytical skills to the UFO phenomenon. Rather than assuming that the modern prevalence of UFO sightings are due to extraterrestrial craft, Jung reserves judgment on their origin & connects UFOs with archetypal i
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Paperback, 160 pages
Published
January 21st 1979
by Princeton University Press
(first published 1958)
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Ein moderner Mythus: Von Dingen, die am Himmel gesehen werden = Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies , C.G. Jung
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: بیست و یکم اکتبر سال 2004 میلادی
عنوان: جهان اسطوره شناسی (7) اسطوره ای نو نشانه هایی در آسمان؛ نویسنده: کارل گوستاو یونگ؛ مترجم: جلال ستاری؛ تهران، نشر مرکز، 1382؛ چاپ دوم 1384؛ چاپ سوم 1387؛ در 257 ص؛ شابک: 9789643057497؛ چاپ چهارم 1390؛ موضوع: بشقاب پرنده ها - قرن 20 م
سرفصلها: بشقابهای پرنده در حد شایعه ای عمومی؛ بشقابهای پرنده در رؤیا؛ بشقاب ...more
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: بیست و یکم اکتبر سال 2004 میلادی
عنوان: جهان اسطوره شناسی (7) اسطوره ای نو نشانه هایی در آسمان؛ نویسنده: کارل گوستاو یونگ؛ مترجم: جلال ستاری؛ تهران، نشر مرکز، 1382؛ چاپ دوم 1384؛ چاپ سوم 1387؛ در 257 ص؛ شابک: 9789643057497؛ چاپ چهارم 1390؛ موضوع: بشقاب پرنده ها - قرن 20 م
سرفصلها: بشقابهای پرنده در حد شایعه ای عمومی؛ بشقابهای پرنده در رؤیا؛ بشقاب ...more
Jun 20, 2017
Owlseyes
rated it
it was amazing
Shelves:
jungian,
ufology,
essays,
paranormal,
dreams-with-ufos,
beware-of-hoaxes,
cul-de-sac,
is-it-real-question
(Don’t get fooled, this is a Billy Meier fake-UFO)
“I am puzzled to death about these phenomena…”
Letter of Jung to an American friend, in February 1951.
When* Jung wrote this book [1958], though the sightings reported were already on the “thousands” order, it seems other parallel phenomena weren’t that much reported; I mean, obviously, the abduction phenomenon; or “implants”;…nor, was it so manifest, this societal demand for “disclosure” of government UFO data, as we see today. Jung knew about G ...more
Apr 18, 2008
Erik Graff
rated it
really liked it
Recommends it for:
adults, not little kids, interested in U.F.O.s or in people and movements interested in U.F.O.s
Recommended to Erik by:
Park Ridge Public Library Board
Shelves:
psychology
The space program was enormously important to the generation growing up in the late fifties through the early seventies. I can remember sputnik, Laika, the push for more science education, Yuri Gagarin interrupting all television programming, watching Echo from the Michigan beach at night, Shepherd, Grissom, Glenn, Titov, Cooper, the Gemini accident...and with all of this the popular culture of science fiction pulps and novels, of The Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits on television.
Dad got me a ...more
Dad got me a ...more
I hadn't realised Jung had written a book about UFOs. So with some curiosity I got this from the library. (Apparently I'm the first person to have checked it out since 2001.)
Anyway, it was quite interesting. Jung was apparently quite willing to accept that the UFO phenomena was real, and that either large portions of society were experiencing mass hallucinations (that sometimes gave radar signal returns) or the planet is experiencing a phenomena that we do not understand.
And most of the book is ...more
Anyway, it was quite interesting. Jung was apparently quite willing to accept that the UFO phenomena was real, and that either large portions of society were experiencing mass hallucinations (that sometimes gave radar signal returns) or the planet is experiencing a phenomena that we do not understand.
And most of the book is ...more
Oct 16, 2008
Gramdal
rated it
it was amazing
Recommends it for:
Ufologists
Recommended to Gramdal by:
Mike Winchester
I think this is the one I read of his, given to me by a friend.
Jung had a strong interest in the UFO phenomenon, and carried out a thorough scientific study on many eye witnesses.
He chose only eye witnesses who's credibility he considered to be very high, pilots, police officers, military, radar personnel and scientists.
What was most interesting was that his writing seemed to hint at his bias toward belief. Because of his high profile in the psychology field, he couldn't bring himself to valid ...more
Jung had a strong interest in the UFO phenomenon, and carried out a thorough scientific study on many eye witnesses.
He chose only eye witnesses who's credibility he considered to be very high, pilots, police officers, military, radar personnel and scientists.
What was most interesting was that his writing seemed to hint at his bias toward belief. Because of his high profile in the psychology field, he couldn't bring himself to valid ...more
Read this book in a single sitting, which wasn't very difficult as it's quite short book. Even so, I could not put it down and found the concepts within it fascinating. This was written, partially in answer to Donald Keyhoe's saucer claims and Jung puts forth a very convincing argument of us wanting to believe in UFOs, a fact strenghthened by the fact that sightings were more prevelant in the age of the X Files etc.
با تمام احترام به دکتر ستاری، ترجمه بسیار بدی بود.
I fully confess to having purchased this many years ago almost entirely due to my conviction that a similar copy likely occupied a place of honor on Fox Mulder's bookshelf. The amount of time it took me to get around to reading it therefore owes more to my opinion of the series finale of The X-Files than it does to my opinion of Jung. Having just done a little Jungian brush-up, however, I decided it was finally time to tackle this one.
Sadly, I must report it's a bit of an anticlimax. Although I ...more
Sadly, I must report it's a bit of an anticlimax. Although I ...more
I had a dream once. I was in a bookstore somewhere that wasn't New York City. The store was chaotic in an orderly fashion, and light streamed in obliquely through the large windows at the front of the store, making slatted sun streaks through the cases of books. I was looking for a book by Jung on UFOs--I'd been looking for it for a long time, but it was out of print, and my local bookstores never got copies in. That part was true outside of the dream also. I had a feeling that the book was in t
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I am a logic person, so Jung gives me some trouble. I prefer C.S. Pierce’s strict definition of signs: icon, index, and symbol. Jung is more interested in the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious, and could care less about strict definitions of signs used to communicate between the two states of the psyche. This book, though coming from ten years of research, feels like it was written in a whirlwind 24-hour period of random associations filled in with tidbits of interesting inf
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Jung shares valuable insights that greatly assist one's comprehension of the UFO problem. Of course, he mostly takes a psychological perspective and ties it all into his theories about archetypes, the process of individuation, and synchronicity. Good stuff. My only complaint is that this book emphasizes examples taken from dreams and artworks about UFOs as much as it does eyewitness accounts. The UFO craze was only ten years old when this book was published, so I wonder what Jung might have late
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In this abstractly thoughtful book, Jung raises some very interesting and insightful theories about why people see UFO's and he attempts to explain it rationally - although many may argue that it's anything but rational.
But it is rational in so far as it tries to be unbiased and explore all sides - imo that's the best way to rationalize anything.
However I was disappointed with his conclusion which, for all his apparent far-sightedness, was hypocritically closed and cynical.
Still definitely worth ...more
But it is rational in so far as it tries to be unbiased and explore all sides - imo that's the best way to rationalize anything.
However I was disappointed with his conclusion which, for all his apparent far-sightedness, was hypocritically closed and cynical.
Still definitely worth ...more
“The frightening spectacle of an apocalyptic world situation would be reduced to the persona, egocentric fear which everyone feels who nurses a secret megalomania—the fear that one’s imagined grandeur will come to grief on colliding with reality. The tragedy of the world would be turned into the comedy of a little cock of the dung-hill. We know only too well that such jokes occur all too frequently.”
I read this book quite a while ago. Jung had some interesting speculations and perspectives on UFOs.
I think that he believed that UFOs were what he referred to as 'archetypes of the collective unconscious'
or some sort of 'paranormal phenomena' (or falling under the category parapsychology) rather than alien
spacecraft.
I think that he believed that UFOs were what he referred to as 'archetypes of the collective unconscious'
or some sort of 'paranormal phenomena' (or falling under the category parapsychology) rather than alien
spacecraft.
An amazing debunking of one of the 20th century's greatest myths. Dr. Jung manages to show - though not fully prove - with empirical evidence that UFO's, along with many other phenomenons, are nothing but mankind's very earliest preoccupations cloaked under a different guise. Whether or not you believe Jung's account is irrelevant - this book will certainly give you something to think about.
Not bad, Carl. Not bad at all.
Next Jung please
This was a really good accompaniment to my first viewing of The X-Files S1
some good stuff here
I'm reading this to help me understand one of my characters better. I'm not very far into it, but it's interesting so far.
Sep 24, 2007
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previous-nonfiction
The chapters about saucers in art were especially interesting.
I found this in a thrift shop. A treatise on UFO's by one of psychiatry's founding fathers? How could I pass that up?
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Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf jʊŋ]), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, l
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“Not so very long ago there were medical authorities who did not "believe" in bacteria and consequently allowed twenty thousand young women to die of easily avoidable puerperal fever in Germany alone. The psychic catastrophes caused by the mental inertia of "experts" do not appear in any statistics, and from this it is concluded that they are non-existent.”
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