Author: Ronald J. MagnettiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composition (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Jazz and Jung
Author: Ronald J. MagnettiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composition (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Decoding Jung's Metaphysics
Author: Bernardo KastrupPublisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1789045665
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
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.
Music, Painting, and Jung
Author: Webster YoungPublisher:
ISBN: 9781705643471
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
USA Book News Awards, Finalist Medal ~ "Music, Painting, and Jung" by Webster Young (the book video is at the Facebook Page) is the colorful and important story of the education of a young composer (the author as a young man) who has quit popular music and has begun to write his first symphony. No special knowledge of music or painting is required of the reader. In his teens, as a guitar playing prodigy, Webster Young was acquainted with the Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Baxter (Doobie Brothers), and John Kay (Steppenwolf). His life changed forever after he met, in the tumult of Berkeley in 1968, a brilliant expressionist painter, Kenneth Frantz, a follower of Carl Jung's psychology, who became his mentor. (Frantz studied with David Park and was part of the San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950's. His Jungian paintings are seen for the first time in tis book, in 14 illustrations. )Young discovered a new basis for meaning in art and music that, even today, could have a liberating impact on the art world. Young converted to writing neoclassical music and is now, thirty years later, the composer of 170 works, with symphonies, ballets, and operas to his credit. "Music, Painting, and Jung" is the memoir of his education after conversion to classical music, full of interesting artistic ideas. (A new footnote in the introduction to this edition explains how Webster Young discovered, after writing this Jung influenced book, that his family name was Jung in Germany.) "Music , Painting, and Jung" is about the influences of people and places upon him - first, that of Kenneth Frantz the Jungian painter, and later, that of the city of Paris and the Juilliard School. A third of the book concerns the author's first time in Paris; the last third is about the Juilliard School and New York. 69 illustrations include paintings by Chagall, Rouault, Corot, and Kenneth Miller Frantz.The author has been a journalist in music for Newsday New York, The Catholic Herald, and the Intercollegiate Review, and other newspapers.
Shaping Jazz
Author: Damon J. PhillipsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140084648X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
There are over a million jazz recordings, but only a few hundred tunes have been recorded repeatedly. Why did a minority of songs become jazz standards? Why do some songs--and not others--get rerecorded by many musicians? Shaping Jazz answers this question and more, exploring the underappreciated yet crucial roles played by initial production and markets--in particular, organizations and geography--in the development of early twentieth-century jazz. Damon Phillips considers why places like New York played more important roles as engines of diffusion than as the sources of standards. He demonstrates why and when certain geographical references in tune and group titles were considered more desirable. He also explains why a place like Berlin, which produced jazz abundantly from the 1920s to early 1930s, is now on jazz's historical sidelines. Phillips shows the key influences of firms in the recording industry, including how record companies and their executives affected what music was recorded, and why major companies would rerelease recordings under artistic pseudonyms. He indicates how a recording's appeal was related to the narrative around its creation, and how the identities of its firm and musicians influenced the tune's long-run popularity. Applying fascinating ideas about market emergence to a music's commercialization, Shaping Jazz offers a unique look at the origins of a groundbreaking art form.
Freud's Lost Chord
Author: Daniel SapenPublisher: Phoenix Publishing House
ISBN: 1781811636
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In Freud's Lost Chord, Dan Sapen explores what it means for the development of depth psychology that Freud was perplexed by music, and unlike nearly every other aspect of human life, had little to say about it - a problem shared by most others in the early generations of psychoanalytic thought. Psychoanalyst Charles Rycroft wrote One cannot help regretting that none of the pioneers of the unconscious thought naturally in auditory terms; more than this, over 100 years later, not only is music per se rarely looked it in psychodynamic terms, jazz music is almost completely absent from the literature. Dr. Sapen looks in depth at the intricate details of psychodynamic theory and practice, as well as an overview of its development, to address the possibility that a theoretical model that has little to say about such a basic and omni-present aspect of human life must be seriously flawed in its effort to explain what it is to be human, and how the mind functions and what it creates. However, Sapen illustrates how numerous other thinkers (Jung, Winnicott, Bion, Loewald, Rycroft), some seemingly at odds with and others serving as essential developments and re-workings of psychoanalytic principles, have managed to illuminate and integrate those missing principles so basic to music and creativity - to development, dreaming, thinking, and relating among other human beings intimately and in a society. Nearly uniquely in the psychodynamic literature, Sapen looks in depth at the music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane as examples of the living, breathing psychological processes so essential to understanding the meaning and dynamics of being human that Freud could not, for a variety of reasons, conceptualize.
The Red Book
Author: Carl G. JungPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393089088
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
In 'The Red Book', compiled between 1914 and 1930, Jung develops his principal theories of archetypes, the collective unconscious & the process of individuation.
Different Drummers
Author: Michael H. KaterPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195165531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
For the architects of the third reich, jazz was an especially threatening form of expression, because of its essence: spontaneity, improvisation and individuality. Jazz survived persecution and became a powerful symbol of political disobedience and resistance in wartime Germany.
Jung on War, Politics and Nazi Germany
Author: Nicholas LewinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429915330
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book presents a historical examination of C.G. Jung's politics and considers the insights he provides for those seeking to understand the causes of War. It looks at how Jung applies his theories to Nazi Germany and the rise of the theories of the collective unconscious and the archetypes.
The Multicultural Imagination
Author: Michael Vannoy AdamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317725328
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Multicultural Imagination is a challenging inquiry into the complex interrelationship between our ideas about race and color and the unconscious. Michael Vannoy Adams takes a fresh look at the contributions of psychoanalysis to a question which affects every individual who tries to establish an effective personal identity in the context of their received 'racial' identity. Adams argues that 'race' is just as important as sex or any other content of the unconcscious, drawing on clinical case materal from contemporary patients for whom 'race' or color is a vitally significant social and political concern that impacts on them personally. He does not assume that racism or 'colorism' will simply vanish if we psychoanalyse them, but shows how a non-defensive ego and a self-image that is receptive to other-images can move us towards a more productive discourse of cultural differences. Wide-ranging in its references and scope, this is a book that provokes the reader - analyst or not - to confront personally those unconscious attitudes which stand in the way of authentic multicultural relationships.
Author: Anne Marshman