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This book (He) answered for me the existential question I have been wondering in my life lately. The wound in men's lives that keep us from being happy and feeling that everything I have achieved has something missing in it. I have had women ask me why don't I just focus on being happy. Until you find the wound and heal it, happiness is fleeting. As it says, when you focus on giving yourself to something bigger than yourself, happiness can follow. When you focus on yourself and your happiness it disappears. This book touched my soul and helped me find more calmness. Highly recommended.


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He Understanding Masculine Psychology Perennial Library Robert A Johnson Books Reviews

I kind of bought this book on a wim, not thinking much of it. Who knew it would become the base of my life?
I found this book to be very interesting. It goes into great detail about the symbolism of the story of the Grail, and Johnson shows you how you can use mythology to relate to your own inner experience. That being said, I thought that there were not enough example of how certain things play out in everyday life. I was hoping that he would say how a man shows his mother complex, or how the father archetype shows itself in man's development. (Ironically, there is no mention of the father archetype at all!) The analysis basically boils down to a man needing to understand his feminine side, which I have frankly heard enough of in my psychoanalytic studies. I do believe it is important, and I would dread life without being in touch with the feminine, but why can't Jungian psychology move on? Why is there so little talk about the father? Why is it that every book I pick up tells me that I need to be in touch with my anima? I get the picture.

In addition, Johnson mentions that the masculine search within ends with a higher understanding of the self, but he ends rather abruptly. I wish that there was more about the mysteries of the self, and how the masculine enhances the self, but there is no such discussion.

If you think about this book enough, you will see that it is lacking very much, and it is better as a primer about the story of the Grail than it is about masculinity and the struggles of men today. It still has strong interpretive value, and it teaches us things to look for in mythology. So I would still recomend it for anyone.
This book is disjointed, underdeveloped, and, at times, cursorily written. Why, then, the four gold stars?

Because it reveals every man's story through the retelling of the deeply symbolic Grail Legend, it unmasks many of the landmark trials in man's psychological development, and it does so in an unassuming way.

Some of the trials Mr. Johnson addresses are

1) The Fisher King Wound - that happy fall that casts him out of his "ignorant paradise" into duality and starts him on the arduous path toward redemption and wholeness.
2) The healing function of the Inner Fool (the childlike unconscious)
3) The Red Knight killing (overcoming the Shadow and using its power for strength)
4) The poison of the Mother Garment (overcoming the mother complex)
5) Learning from the Godfather (furthering one's masculine development)
6) The mother death (the necessary separation from the mother in the transition from boy to man)
7) Blanche Fleur (the Anima, or internal feminine motivator) and her danger
8) The Hideous Damsel (Doubt, Hatred) that motivates a new grail search
9) Consulting the Old Hermit (our wise, introverted aspect within that leads us toward the Grail)
10) The true meaning of the Grail

I saw myself on every page and had many awakenings about my identity, about masculinity, even about the development of western civilization.

The writing at times may be muddled, but this book is a rich and momentous journey which will help you on your own.
The book is a brilliant examination of the masculine inner journey. A language for the inner quest is offered and landmarks demarcated. My take is that Johnson hits passport, and this is the real thing. Johnson is also versed in Eastern thought, so even though these inner quest archetypes are Western (Jungian), terms like "enlightenment" imply some Western translations of Eastern concepts. The one disappointment I experienced was that there is no follow-through that I could detect for some of the archetypes employed. Archetypes like the inner female inspiration (Blanche Fleur) or the inner female wisdom (Sophia) are brought up, examined, but it is never shown how they lead to the final destination, enlightenment.
This brief writing cuts to the chase regarding what it means to be true to one's masculinity. While the anecdotal approach took a little getting used to, I've found that it has helped me remember the book's key points.
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Read it through cover to cover in one sitting (only 90ish pages).

Put my subconscious model of male development into worded form - in a very elegant way might I add.

As society gets more and more "advanced" men are being left in the dust, and to boot - with less means to grow by the fire. Most men will need to opt to to the pages of the book to grow, and to do it consciously, instead of in ages past where it was done in ceremony.

If your one of these men (nothing wrong with admitting it, we all have our own paths) I highly recommend this quick read.
For those wanting a deeper understanding of their relationship to God (Higher Power, Universal Truth), their role or archetype of the male, and their relationship to the female, their relationship to who they are, this is an important book. Johnson, a Jungian analyst, brings a deep understanding of the human spiritual relationship to his readers in his writing. Though writing from a Christian perspective his work can be recognized applicable from all faiths. I've read, so far, his books Balancing Heaven & Earth, and He; and find his thinking/writing comparable to Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Man is Not Alone.

My personal evolution is more "layers of an onion-like (or leaves of an artichoke-like because there is a heart in the middle, as a friend says) than explosive. I see, sense and am living my life different from reading Johnson.
This book (He) answered for me the existential question I have been wondering in my life lately. The wound in men's lives that keep us from being happy and feeling that everything I have achieved has something missing in it. I have had women ask me why don't I just focus on being happy. Until you find the wound and heal it, happiness is fleeting. As it says, when you focus on giving yourself to something bigger than yourself, happiness can follow. When you focus on yourself and your happiness it disappears. This book touched my soul and helped me find more calmness. Highly recommended.