9 must-read nonfiction books like Alchemical Studies (Collected Works 13) by C.G. Jung

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Alchemical Studies (Collected Works 13)

By: C.G. Jung

4.46

Format: 524 pages, Paperback

Five long essays that trace Jung's developing interest in alchemy from 1929 onward. An introduction…

"Generally certain symptoms appear, among them a peculiar use of language: one wants to speak forcefully in order to impress one's opponent, so one employs a special, "bombastic" style full of neologisms which might be described as "power-words." This symptom is observable not only in the psychiatric clinic but also among certain modern philosophers, and, above all, whenever anything unworthy of belief has to be insisted on in the teeth of inner resistance: the language swells up, overreaches itself, sprouts grotesque words distinguished only by their needless complexity. The word is charged with the task of achieving what cannot be done by honest means."

-C.G. Jung, Alchemical Studies (Collected Works 13)

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Alchemical Studies (Collected Works 13) by C.G. Jung , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more

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  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

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2. The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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3. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • psychology
"Waves are the practice of the water."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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4. The I Ching or Book of Changes

By: Anonymous , C.G. Jung , Richard Wilhelm , Cary F. Baynes

3.31

Format: 267 pages,

The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the 1st efforts of the human mind to place itself within… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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5. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
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6. You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Sherab Chödzin Kohn

3.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this book Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Zen monk, author, and meditation master, distills the es… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

7. The Dhammapada

By: Anonymous , Thich Nhat Hanh , None , None

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The Dhammapada (Pali; Prakrit: dhmmpd Dhammapada; Sanskrit: dhrmpd Dharmapada) is a collection of s… read more

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8. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

3.86

Format: None pages,

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9. An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

By: C.G. Jung , None

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the world's leading authorities on Zen Buddhism, D. T. Suzuki was the author of more than a … read more

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10. Anarchy

By: Vernon Richards , Errico Malatesta

3.79

Format: 477 pages, Paperback

Many think 'anarchy' means confusion, disorder, and chaos, but Maletesta sets the record staight. E… read more

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11. Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche

By: Edward F. Edinger

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

This book is about the individual's journey to psychological wholeness, known in analytical psychol… read more

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12. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

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13. De Anima

By: Aristotle , Hugh Lawson-Tancred

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The soul is, so to speak, the first principle of living things. We seek to contemplate and know it… read more

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14. Projection and Re-collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul

By: Marie-Louise von Franz , None

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Marie Louise von Franz's Projection and Re-Collection is thorough in its wide-ranging exploration … read more

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15. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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16. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

17. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

By: William Blake

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and lit… read more

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18. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

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19. The Last Messiah

By: Peter Wessel Zapffe

4.32

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

The supreme text of Antinatalist despair! Norwegian philosopher Peter Zapffe re-imagines the human … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture pas…"

-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

"A man will come forth, who before all other men has dared to strip his soul naked and give himself wholly over to our most profound questioning, even to the idea of annihilation. A man who has graspe…"

-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

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20. Alchemical Studies (Collected Works 13)

By: C.G. Jung

4.46

Format: 524 pages, Paperback

Five long essays that trace Jung's developing interest in alchemy from 1929 onward. An introduction… read more

Similar categories in C.G. Jung's Alchemical Studies (Collected Works 13) book and C.G. Jung's Alchemical Studies (Collected Works 13)

  • art
  • psychoanalysis
  • history
  • alchemy
  • psychology
  • occult
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Generally certain symptoms appear, among them a peculiar use of language: one wants to speak forcefully in order to impress one's opponent, so one employs a special, "bombastic" style full of neologi…"

-C.G. Jung, Alchemical Studies (Collected Works 13)

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4.11

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

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The I Ching or Book of Changes

Anonymous , C.G. Jung , Richard Wilhelm , Cary F. Baynes

3.31

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3.76

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4.02

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