American Beauty: Jungian Reflections

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Summary: Jung brought home to where we live--in our relationships.
Review: If you found the film American Beauty provocative--whether you loved it or hated it, or left the theater just wondering what it was all about--I encourage you to read this wonderful little book. I have found the material remarkable, challenging, and enduring. Mr. Chachere offers the reader a clear reflective mirror and a delectable menu of insights with which to view the film anew and to explore what it might have to say to us about ourselves and our relationships. This is Jung brought home. Based on a series of lectures given to a live audience, the book is both timely and timeless in its wisdom and easy to read in its simplicity and warmth. Jungian concepts are brought down to earth,and well-illustrated with art and example. Most accurately, Chachere's reflections can serve as a doorway worth exploring, a doorway to saner and more human living and loving.

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Summary: Like A Beautiful Rose, Thorns and All
Review: Richard Chachere's Jungian Reflections on the film, American Beauty, is the deeply personal conversation you never had with your best friend or your mentor about certain universally-shared fears and fantasies you mistakenly believe are yours alone. It is a touchstone of familiar and provocative images from film, literature and the arts that symbolize the dysfunction in our relationships. It is about looking hard at one's own complexes. In the end, and perhaps most importantly, it is about the truly beautiful in life and about the heroic but often undeveloped quality of the human psyche. A must read for anyone at work (and at play) in the psychic garden of perfect roses and painful thorns.

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Summary: Great insights!
Review: This book resonated with the search I had started for what lies deep inside me, with the search to be whole, to be honest. It gave a wonderful analysis of what goes on in our lives below the surface. It also introduced Jungian concepts in a way that made sense; it gave me the language I needed to express what I had been doing, and to understand why this search was so important.

Rating:
Summary: Great insights!
Review: This book resonated with the search I had started for what lies deep inside me, with the search to be whole, to be honest. It gave a wonderful analysis of what goes on in our lives below the surface. It also introduced Jungian concepts in a way that made sense; it gave me the language I needed to express what I had been doing, and to understand why this search was so important.

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Summary: Jung brought to where we live--in our relationships
Review: Whether you loved(or hated)the film, American Beauty, or simply left the theater wondering what it was all about, I encourage you to read this book. Based on a series of lectures, this small book is easy to read and full of insight and wisdom, gleaned from his many years of experience as a therapist, and devoted to the work of C.G. Jung. Richard Chachere is wonderfully warm and down to earth in his presentation, and the images of the film resonate vibrantly anew with Chachere's interpretation.