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'The Qabalistic Tarot' by Robert Wang.
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For Jung, I agree that starting with Man and His Symbols is the best place for a beginning Jungian to start. It was written near the end of his life with the intent of presenting his most developed ideas to the general (educated) public. An understanding of Jung's basic terms regarding the parts of the psyche, individuation, archetypes and the collective unconscious is essential and that's what Man and His Symbols attempts to do. Personally I like Jung and the Tarot by Sallie Nichols mostly because I think it is the kind of book that either Jung or Marie-Louise von Franz (a major Jungian) would have written on the subject, rather than being a book "about" Jung.
I have two articles at: http://marygreer.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/carl-jung-and-tarot/
Jung is all about application of the principles and Sallie Nichols has it down. It's not that more couldn't be said, but that's the joy of working with symbols from a Jungian perspective - they keep opening up the more you work with them, and a personal interpretation will vary from a cultural or archetypal one (although the relationship is usually apparent). Be aware that Nichols focuses on the Marseille Major Arcana with just scattered comments on the Rider-Waite-Smith images.I have the Sallie Nichols book, when I first started reading it I wondered if it was a little light on actual Jung and maybe trying to make it fit, but that was not a thorough read through, just a few chunks here and there.
Tarot Wisdom by Rachel Pollack would be an excellent reference for you, too. I find it extremely detailed, interesting and informative on all aspects of Tarot. It's scholarly but with a really readable slant, I guess you could say. I definitely recommend it as a "must have" for any Tarot library. I like it even better than her first book on Tarot.
'The Qabalistic Tarot' by Robert Wang.
Freddie