Cary F. Baynes Libri

This simplified pocket edition is for the modern reader who, it is admitted, may well be sceptical of a book of oracles. But W.S.Boardman suggests that we should approach it with an open mind, allowing it to remind us of the apparent preponderance in life of chance (which might yet be something else). Recommending the traditional way of working with the text - tossing coins - W.S.Boardman says this helps us to let go of our struggle to control events and to stop taking ourselves too seriously. Both assist the detachment that can unlock us and allow real changes into our lives.

“Questo libro che in italiano prende il titolo dal problema dell'inconscio, costituisce in tutti i sensi la più efficace e piena introduzione per la lettura di Jung e il testo che meglio ne indica l'evoluzione del pensiero. I primi capitoli, forse i più interessanti e i più validi, dimostrano come la maggiore aderenza ai temi della psicologia venga espressa in primo luogo da un linguaggio cauto, spesso dubitativo, estremamente critico e problematico nei confronti delle sue stesse asserzioni. Gli ultimi saggi contenuti in questo volume indicano invece la via per speculazioni più ardite, pur senza staccarsi completamente da una terminologia psicologica" (dalla Prefazione di Giovanni Jervis).

The West's foremost translator of the I Ching, Richard Wilhelm thought deeply about how contemporary readers could benefit from this ancient work and its perennially valid insights into change and chance. For him and for his son, Hellmut Wilhelm, the Book of Changes represented not just a mysterious book of oracles or a notable source of the Taoist and Confucian philosophies. In their hands, it emerges, as it did for C. G. Jung, as a vital key to humanity's age-old collective unconscious. Here the observations of the Wilhelms are combined in a volume that will reward specialists and aficionados with its treatment of historical context--and that will serve also as an introduction to the I Ching and the meaning of its famous hexagrams.