Personality, Divination, and the Tarot

by Carl Sargent

This book offers a psychological interpretation of the Tarot showing how modern theories of personality were anticipated in the symbols of the cards. The Tarot is evaluated as a tool for revealing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892812192
• ISBN13: 9780892812196
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Destiny Books
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

"Our own imaginations and understanding."

My friend Llynn recommended this book, and so I'll let her words be my recommendation to you: I haven't got a definitive guide to the TdM but... 'Personality, Divination, and the Tarot' by Carl Sargent, was recommended because the author uses the TdM. Why did the author choose the TdM? Because the cards come without a LWB! 'The Marseilles deck...forces us back upon our own imaginations and understanding.' As the title suggests the cards are described using personality theories, but then suggestions are made for reading with the cards. Rather than upright and reversed meanings he gives positive and negative interpretations. If you like a psychological approach to Tarot then this may be a good book to use. :) Thanks, Llynn!

Exploring the links between the tarot and psych archetypes

I saw this book in a second hand shop and subsequently devoured its contents... Cambridge professor Carl Sargent had expressed what I had felt for years - that the Tarot pre-dated Freud and Jung by at least 5 centuries in detailing the psychological 'journeys' we as humans will make in our lifetimes. Sargent is an expert on both subjects, and draws both intuitive and scientific parallels between the older tarot and modern day psychological and personality theory. He explains the poignant theories of personality simply and easily, so the reader has no need of prior psychological knowledge. This book is a must for those that like to focus more on the archetypal nature of the cards, in particlular in self-exploration. The extra depth this book gave to my understading of tarot was invaluable, and I have since found more recent books on the subject to continue my own exploration.