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Great Books Reading and Discussion Group with Tom

Please join us to discuss "The Stages of Life" by Carl Gustav Jung.

Sample a “tasting menu” of great literature and philosophy in the library’s Great Books program, now in its seventeenth year. Participants find the Shared Inquiry™ approach, popularized by the Chicago-based Great Books Foundation, to be a powerful learning tool. Re-connect with an author you have loved, or discover a new one! Pick up a copy of the Great Conversations 1 anthology at the first floor Customer Services desk for a materials fee of $10. For more information, e-mail Tom Cohn at tom_cohn@huntlib.org. Check out our blog at hplgreatbooks.blogspot.com.  Registration is required to receive Zoom sign-in via email. 

Swiss physician Carl Gustav Jung was one of the founders of modern psychoanalytic theory. In “The Stages of Life,” Jung takes up the question, “Why does man, in obvious contrast to the animal world, have problems?”  The answer: “There are no problems without consciousness.” He traces the stages of human life and anticipates the future literature of the mid-life crisis. He writes, “I have observed that a directed life is in general better, richer, and healthier than an aimless one, and that it is better to go forward with the stream of time than backward against it.” 

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