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(More customer reviews)I just finished this. Having read countless books on Jungian Psychology and Egyptology I will tell you one thing. The author proceeds to provide a synopsis of Egyptian history with only the occasional reference to how these archetypes actually influenced the world. He defines the 'archetype'and 'collective unconscious'in the introduction and then proceeds to give a history of Egypt without intertwining the ways by which these psychic processes, through culture and religion, shaped the world we live in as we know it today. When it comes to the history of Egypt, there are better books out there (Oxford History of Ancient Egypt) and the author makes many blatant mistakes one of which is mistaking the triad of Osiris, Isis and Horus for 'the king with two female divinities' and the reliefs at temple of Denderah for that of Edfu - mistakes like that are quite unforgivable at this level of scholarship. In addition, I bought the hardcover version of this which was ridiculously overpriced (100 plus dollars)
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Drawing on Jungian psychology to show why Egypt has been so important in the history of Western civilisation, Michael Rice explains the majesty and enduring appeal of Egyptian civilization. Jung claimed that there exist certain psychological drives dormant in our shared unconscious: these are the archetypes. From the omnipotent god to the idea of the nation state, the formulation of most of these archetypes is owed to ancient Egypt.Michael Rice sets out to recover the sense of wonder that the Egyptians themselves felt as they contemplated the world in which they lived, and the way they expressed that wonder in the religion, art and literature. He traces the story of Egyptian civilization from its emergence in the third millennium BC to its transformation following the Macedonian conquest in 30 BC.
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