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| | Available May 15: Murray Stein's Map of the Soul - 7: Persona, Shadow & Ego in the World of BTS
Beyond summarizing the three volumes on Persona, Shadow and Ego in the Map of the Soul series, this latest book explores the entire BTS album, start to finish, revealing profound insights into the collective psyche of BTS.
The title of BTS’s latest album, Map of the Soul: 7, captivates the mind with its suggestive and alluring imagery. It came as a surprise to many fans. Expected was an album that would follow upon Map of the Soul: Persona with songs about Shadow or Ego. While the new album does indeed include songs with these themes, it is much more complex and broader in vision than expected. The number 7 suggests mystery. It catches the mind’s attention with its symbolic significance. What does this number mean in relation to the idea of a “map of the soul?” This book dives into this mystery and explores the unconscious reaches of our mind.
Fans of BTS from around the world will marvel at the depth of meaning in the songs contained in Map of the Soul: 7. They take the listener into deep reflection upon the meaning of striving and ambition, the dangers of worldly success, and the amazing resiliency of the human spirit to recover and go on despite the pitfalls on life’s journey. The songs themselves function as a map for souls who are setting out in life and engaging in challenging relationships. The songs are reflective, mirroring what we find within ourselves in our struggles to become and to thrive.
When you stand on the threshold of a new land, it is useful to have a map as your guide. The great psychologist of the 20th Century, Carl Jung, created a Map of the Soul that many people in his time found more than a little helpful, even lifesaving. It is even more so now, for people in the 21st Century, caught in the profound complexities of modern life. Armed with this map, people are better able to find their way successfully through life’s journey. Today, BTS is putting this map into the hands of their fans. For this great service we are profoundly very grateful.
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| | | Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: BTS and the Number 7 Chapter 2: Reflections on the Lyrics of BTS’ Map of the Soul: 7 Chapter 3: A Review of the Map of the Soul PERSONA Chapter 4: An Introduction to Persona Chapter 5: BTS, Jung and the True Self Chapter 6: Persona and Your Identity Chapter 7: Love Yourself, Know Your Name, Speak Yourself SHADOW Chapter 8: An Introduction to Shadow Chapter 9: The Shadow EGO Chapter 10: An Introduction to Ego Chapter 11: The Ego
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| | Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich (ISAP-ZURICH). He was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) from 2001 to 2004 and President of ISAP-ZURICH from 2008 to 2012.
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| | Volume 1 Map of the Soul - Persona
What is our persona and how does it affect our life’s journey? What masks do we wear as we engage those around us? Our persona is ultimately how we relate to the world. Combined with our ego, shadow, anima and other intra-psychic elements it creates an internal map of the soul.
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| | | Volume 2 Map of the Soul - Shadow
Murray Stein explores the dark recesses of our psyche, as well as the shadow images in BTS’s latest songs in their album Map of the Soul: 7. The Korean Pop band, BTS, has been taking the world by storm with a series of albums inspired from Stein’s concepts titled Map of the Soul. Stein has joined them in expressing these same Jungian themes in a companion book series.
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| | | Volume 3 Map of the Soul - Ego Also available from Chiron Publications, the third book in the Map of the Soul series, Map of the Soul - Ego: I Am. Murray Stein explores the beginnings of consciousness and the concept of the “I,” as well as the evocative lyrics from the Korean Pop band BTS’s album, Map of the Soul: 7. BTS’s album series titled Map of the Soul was largely inspired by Dr. Stein’s presentation of C.G. Jung’s groundbreaking psychological insights. |
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