11 best-selling nonfiction books like The Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman

The Dream and the Underworld

By: James Hillman

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

In a deepening of the thinking begun in The Myth of Analysisand Re-Visioning Psychology, James Hill…

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Cover of The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise by R.D. Laing

1. The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

By: R.D. Laing

4.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A brilliantly original book from one of the 20th century's most influential psychiatrists that goes… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Under the heading of "defense mechanisms,"

-R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

"If the formation is itself off course, then the man who is really to get "on course" must leave the formation."

-R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

"If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know."

-R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man."

-R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

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2. Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales

By: Marie-Louise von Franz

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A renowned psychologist examines fairy tales through a Jungian lens, revealing what they can teach … read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mythology
"For if collective material is completely contradictory, if our basic ethical disposition is completely contradictory, only then is it possible for us to have an individual, responsible, free consciou…"

-Marie-Louise von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales

"People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody…"

-Marie-Louise von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales

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3. Astrology for Lovers

By: Liz Greene

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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4. Man and His Symbols

By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mythology
"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

5. The Dream and the Underworld

By: James Hillman

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

In a deepening of the thinking begun in The Myth of Analysisand Re-Visioning Psychology, James Hill… read more

Similar categories in James Hillman's The Dream and the Underworld book and James Hillman's The Dream and the Underworld

  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mysticism
  • mythology
Cover of Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson

6. Eros the Bittersweet

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
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7. Answer to Job

By: C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull

4.17

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Jung has never pursued the "psychology of religion" apart from general psychology. The unique impor… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"«Es necesario acostumbrarse a la idea de que 'tiempo' es un concepto relativo, y que propiamente tiene que ser completado por el concepto de una pleromática existencia 'simultánea' o 'bárdica' de tod…"

-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job

"«El que algo sea una realidad 'física' no es el único criterio de verdad. También existen verdades 'anímicas', las cuales no pueden ni probarse ni explicarse, pero tampoco negarse físicamente. [...] …"

-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job

"I would even go so far as to say that the mythical character of a life is just what expresses its universal human validity. It is perfectly possible, psychologically, for the unconscious or an archet…"

-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job

"The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere inte…"

-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job

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8. Escape from Freedom

By: Erich Fromm

3.47

Format: 288 pages,

If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Douglas Gillette, Robert L. Moore

9. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

By: Douglas Gillette , Robert L. Moore

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

The corporate "yes man," the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally di… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mythology

10. The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

By: Pema Chödrön

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us … read more

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11. Psicomagia

By: Alejandro Jodorowsky

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

A healing path using the power of dreams, theater, poetry, and shamanism * Shows how psychological … read more

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12. The Auctioneer

By: Ed Gorman , Joan Samson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harrowing tensions explode in a series of events that could happen anywhere, to anyone, just as the… read more

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13. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes … read more

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14. The Medium is the Massage

By: Marshall McLuhan , Quentin Fiore , Jerome Agel

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Medium is the Massageis Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presenta… read more

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15. 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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16. The Weird and the Eerie

By: Mark Fisher

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more

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17. The Fifth Child

By: Doris Lessing

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story--centered on the birth of a baby who seems less th… read more

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18. 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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19. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

By: William Styron

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true acc… read more

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20. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Cover of The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

21. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

By: Eleanor Janega

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more

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  • nonfiction

9 must-read philosophy books like The Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman

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The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

R.D. Laing

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales

Marie-Louise von Franz

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Man and His Symbols

C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

The Dream and the Underworld

James Hillman

4.23

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8 Top womens books like The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

Transform Your Habits

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

2.83

Transform Your Habits

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Jenni Nuttall

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale

Kate Lister

4.18

Transform Your Habits

A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

Emma Southon

4.23

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