Self****

The content is a bit obscure and difficult to read. Although I often talked about Jung when I was in school, this is the first time I read Jung's works. From the perspective of comprehensive personality development, it deeply analyzes the non-dual opposition between consciousness and unconsciousness, but can establish a connection and a dynamically balanced relationship. The flow of personality energy is not about who controls whom or who possesses it, but about reaching the realm of my essential self. In the context of the collective unconsciousness, it fully displays the rich individual consciousness, an invisible force that is invisible but very powerful, just like the magic of psychology on me. I can't see it but I want to persist.

This book explores the relationship between the two keywords in the title, "self-awareness" and "unconsciousness." It will first talk about the role of the unconscious on consciousness, and then talk about individuation. One point in the book impressed me deeply, "Dreams are the most objective product of human psychology." Dreams can actually reflect our consciousness. Dreams must have meaning. The content of dreams is related to childhood. This suddenly brings the mysterious dream back to reality and makes us just the realistic basis of the dream. I have to say that this book is quite difficult, and I have not fully understood the ideas in it yet.

In our lives, we always hear people say that they are truthful, and we always think that truthfulness is a noble personality. So what is truthfulness? Identity comes from the most primitive desires, and it is expressed directly without modification in dealing with people and things. It is a kind of truth, a kind of "French literary style" truth. This kind of "truth" exposes oneself, dares to admit the immoral things one does but is not ashamed! The self is the reality closest to the public and at the level of life. This "reality" will use most of the energy to control and suppress the irrational impulses of the self, but it will also do "evil" things out of jealousy, hatred, greed and other emotions.

Through the exploration of self-awareness and unconscious psychological processes, the author reveals the deep motivations and subconscious power behind human behavior. With concise, clear language and in-depth thinking, this book provides readers with in-depth understanding and enlightenment about the self and the unconscious. The book emphasizes the influence of unconscious mental processes on individual behavior and decision-making. By analyzing psychological experiments and clinical cases, the author shows how unconscious forces play a role in our daily lives. For example, the authors mention the importance of unconscious automatic processes for habit formation, emotional processing, and decision-making. These cases prove the influence of the unconscious on our thinking and behavior, inspiring readers to think about self-cognition and psychological mechanisms.

The most famous concept and contribution of Jung's book is the "collective unconscious". People always think that their thinking and behavior are based on reason, but in fact, we are not only affected by the unconscious - although we can find the existence of this unconscious and talk to it many times - but the collective unconscious is a more difficult to identify existence. Jung believed that it is very important to establish a reflective awareness of this collective unconscious, which ensures that our personality will not be annihilated.

This book gave me a deeper understanding of the unconscious. Just like after I got married, I realized that some of my and my partner's behaviors and reactions may be influenced by unconsciousness. The collective unconscious and archetypes mentioned in the book also reminded me of my relatives and friends around me. We may all be unconsciously influenced by our common culture and traditions. This book is not only a psychological work, but also a book that can make people resonate and think.

This is a professional psychology book worth reading

My IQ and experience are not enough to support my reading, but I still want to read it. It feels like you're really bad at the game, but you still have to play it.

The first Jung book I read

Understand yourself from another perspective, written in an easy-to-understand way.