Psychological Types: Or, the Psychology of Individuation: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Psychological Types: Or, the Psychology of Individuation, credited to Carl Gustav Jung, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Psychological Types: Or, the Psychology of Individuation by Carl Gustav Jung. (Translated by Helton Godwin Baynes.) Read in English by Larry Wilson; Owlivia; Kazbek; Penny Witt; AVNX; benjamin john herman; Vincent Maraldo; Simona Perego; Rachel May Ferriman; Paul Harvey; Tatiana Chichilla; Sindu Ravindran; Ritu Aarcee; onelickless; Marya James; Kurt; KevinS; Glen Murrant; Anautumnous; Juls11; Joanna Michal Hoyt Ever wondered if there is any "theoretical basis" for the well-known Myers–Briggs Type Indicator Personality Test? In this groundbreaking work of typology, Jung proposes three key dichotomies - extraversion/introversion, sensation/intuition, as well as thinking/feeling - as an attempt to reconcile the differing theories of Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. - Summary by Cao Yuqing

Recording facts

• Recording title: Psychological Types: Or, the Psychology of Individuation
• Author credits: Carl Gustav Jung
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 77
• Listed recording duration: 22:11:21

Catalogue topics

• psychology
• jung
• typology

Opening tracks: first 24 of 77

1. 00 - Translator's Preface — 39:36
2. 01 - Foreword — 3:27
3. 02 - Introduction — 11:20
4. 03 - Chapter 1 The Problem of Types in the History of Classical and Medieval Thought, 1: Psychology in the Classical Age: The Gnostics, Tertullian, and Origen — 29:15
5. 04 - Chapter 1.2: The Theological Disputes of the Ancient Church — 6:43
6. 05 - Chapter 1.3: The Problem of Transubstantiation — 8:00
7. 06 - Chapter 1.4 Nominalism and Realism intro and (a) The Problem of the Universalia in the Classical Age — 44:12
8. 07 - Chapter 1.4 (b): The Universalia Problem in Scholasticism — 20:59
9. 08 - Chapter 1.4 (c): Abelard's Attempt at Conciliation — 42:32
10. 09 - Chapter 1.5: The Holy Communion Controversy between Luther and Zwingli — 6:10
11. 10 - Chapter 2 Schiller’s Ideas upon the Type Problem, 1: Letters on the Msthetic Education of Man, (a) The Superior and the Inferior Functions, Part 1 — 37:12
12. 11 - Chapter 2 Schiller’s Ideas upon the Type Problem, 1: Letters on the Msthetic Education of Man, (a) The Superior and the Inferior Functions, Part 2 — 35:46
13. 12 - Chapter 2.2: A Discussion on Naive and Sentimental Poetry — 15:40
14. 13 - Chapter 3: The Apollonian and the Dionysian — 32:51
15. 14 - Chapter 4 The Type Problem in the Discernment of Human Character, 1: General Remarks upon Jordan's Types — 20:41
16. 15 - Chapter 4.2 Special Description and Criticism of the Jordan Types, (a) The Introverted Woman (the more-impassioned woman), and (b) The Extraverted Woman (the less-impassioned woman) — 26:08
17. 16 - Chapter 4.2 Special Description and Criticism of the Jordan Types, (c) The Extraverted Man, and (d) The Introverted Man — 18:42
18. 17 - Chapter 5 The Problem of Types in Poetry - Carl Spitteler’s Prometheus and Epimetheus, 1: Introductory Remarks on Spittelers Characterization of Types — 17:13
19. 18 - Chapter 5.2: A Comparison of Spitteler’s with Goethe's Prometheus — 35:43
20. 19 - Chapter 5.3 The Significance of the Reconciling Symbol — 14:31
21. 20 - Chapter 5.3 (a) The Brahmanic Conception of the Problem of the Opposites — 13:22
22. 21 - Chapter 5.3 (b) Concerning the Brahmanic Conception of the Reconciling Symbol — 23:07
23. 22 - Chapter 5.3 (c) The Reconciling Symbol as the Principle of Dynamic Regulation — 20:29
24. 23 - Chapter 5.3 (d) The Reconciling Symbol in Chinese Philosophy — 17:19

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