Matter of Heart: The Extraordinary Journey of C.G. Jung

Jung was so far ahead of his time, that he is really the voice of today, despite having died in 1961. This movie provides a succinct summation of his life's work that can be applied individually and collectively today. The best way to make the world a better place is for the individual to heal and integrate the shadow and the light within him or herself. (f we each take responsibility for that, we can save humanity and the planet.

For those desiring an introductory overview to the life & work of Carl Jung, this documentary is an excellent starting point. In his interweaving of myth, psychology, and art, Jung developed a rich & fulfilling model of the human psyche, replete with possibility & treasure ... and also with dangers. As he said many times, his primary role was as a doctor & healer. The development of his school of psychology was based upon practical experience in mental hospitals, observing & working with patients in dire need of understanding. Jung brought his considerable wealth of knowledge & powerful personality to their aid. In so doing, he began his lifelong work of exploring the depths of the Unconscious & the varied powers that dwell within, controlling far more of our conscious lives than we know or care to believe.What's especially fascinating about this film is the extent to which we get to know Jung as a human being, as recounted by his colleagues & friends. It's important to acknowledge him as a real human being, complete with flaws & foibles like any other, rather than as some impossibly inhuman idol, existing somewhere beyond our everyday lives. A plaster god has nothing to offer those in need of healing; a flesh & blood person with Jung's insight can do much. In the course of this film we get a sense of the man at work, fascinated by the vast realm he had discovered, constantly revising his ideas as he learned more, doing his best not to fall into rigid dogma. He always claimed that his work was incomplete, and that he expected others to refine & expand it.In addition to the documentary itself, the DVD also contains "Face to Face: Professor Jung" from 1959, in which he appeared on a BBC chat show to discuss his work; and color excerpt from an unfinished documentary set at his Bollingen Tower retreat. Together, these films offer in-depth evidence of a brilliant, multi-faceted mind grappling with the mysteries not only of the human psyche, but of life itself. Highly recommended!

I give 4 stars because of how slow this starts, complete with gloomy music. This DVD is full of interviews of folks (many who became analysts) who knew Jung and had analysis with him, as well as interviews with Jung himself. Very interesting information.

Interesting but nothing new except a "funny" thing.Everyone in Matters of Heart is identified as regards credentials as a Jungian with the sole exception of one woman who is identified only as Mary Bancroft, perhaps listed as author in the credits though I have no idea what she wrote and no doubt nothing of any significance. However, prior to seeing this DVD however, I had read The Devil's Chessboard, which by the way is an extraordinary book I highly recommend, ( See my review for that book. I recognized the name Mary Bancroft.Mary Bancroft had been Alan Dulles's mistress and both she and Alan Dulles's wife had been analysands of Carl Jung. Alan Dulles had been the Devil of the Devil's Chessboard head of the CIA at its inception under another name. Under Alan Dulles it became the CIA and among his other devilish deeds through the decades after WWII was the devil behind the Bay of Pigs and the eventual assassination of JFK and the framing of Oswald. The CIA had been the shadow government for decades and if I am not mistaken every US President was afraid of him as the power he wielded was huge. (His brother, John Foster Dulles, had been Secretary of State. Dulles airport is named after him.)So, here is the Trickster a quite extraordinary concept for Jung though long in history and not something new. Another Jungian concept central to Jung's work was the Shadow! Trickster and Shadow Alan Dulles like the synchronicity of the Jung's Scarab there he was in the flesh. Alan Dulles's wife and mistress were both Jung's analysands. Alan Dulles and Jung knew each other though Alan Dulles was not interested in analysis.

I view this movie because I'm a student of Jung (I believe in his teachings) I feel that this was a little insight into how this brilliant man viewed the world in which he was a part of and attempted to educate about our collective responsibility. If one can listens through the broken English and poor film quality, but focus on the conversations you may find that it is very potent to the issues we are dealing with today "the Shadow is projecting itself."

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Excellent!

Man erfährt etwas über C.G. Jung, ohne Zweifel, auch vieles aus der alten Zeit, das so noch nirgends aufgetaucht ist. Dafür sorgt die außergewöhnliche Anzahl und Auswahl der Zeitzeugen, viele 'Celebrities', manche heute selbst nicht mehr am Leben. Am interessantes ist vielleicht die Einblicknahme in das Phänomen des Bewunderns, was uns fast alle der in Bild und Ton erscheinenden Chronisten offen vortragen.

This documentary about the great Swiss psychologist Carl Jung was produced in 1983, by the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles.It consists mainly of people who knew him talking about the man they knew, and often worked with, and had been in conversation with.Perhaps due to the age of this, the speakers’ words are not always as easy to follow as you would wish. Alas, no subtitles. You have to concentrate.At first try, I played this using VideoLan. It played with background music – a string quartet – on a loop. And it wouldn’t stop! Even when I was trying to focus on the speakers, it was still playing. I decided to make a cup of tea, so put it on pause. The annoying music kept playing. Having returned, I resumed watching, but reached the point where I couldn’t take any more of the intrusive music. I turned it off. Still, the music-on-a-loop kept playing. I shut VideoLan down.Next, I tried playing it on Microsoft’s program – Power Media Player. I started at the point where I had left off on VideoLan. Better results. The intrusive music track no longer played over the speakers, only returning intermittently on certain, usually brief, scenes.I am not techy enough to know what was going on there. My guess is that the default settings on PowerMedia differ from those on VideoLan.The video comes with two special features: “C.G. Jung at Bollingen Tower Retreat.” 1951, 21 minutes, colour. Also: “Face to Face: C.G. Jung,” a BBC production from 1959. 30 minutes, B & W.