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PublisherPrinceton University Press

ISBN-100691097712

ISBN-139780691097718

eBay Product ID (ePID)297651

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Number of Pages624 Pages

Publication NameCollected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 12 : Psychology and Alchemy

LanguageEnglish

SubjectMovements / Jungian, Movements / Psychoanalysis

Publication Year1968

TypeTextbook

AuthorC. G. Jung

Subject AreaPsychology

SeriesThe Collected Works of C. G. Jung Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.9 in

Item Weight36.1 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width7.5 in

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Edition Number2

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

ReviewsReaders . . . who believe that medieval and early modern alchemy was only a misguided effort to transform base metals into gold, or at best a crude preparation for scientific chemistry, will experience a great and probably bewildering surprise. -- Thought, Those readers of Psychology and Alchemy who believe that medieval and early modern alchemy was only a misguided effort to transform base metals into gold, or at best a crude preparation for scientific chemistry, will experience a great and probably bewildering surprise. But even most of those who are more or less familiar with the early history of science and the importance of alchemy in it . . . will no doubt never have dreamt of the psychological implications which are at least as fascinating as alchemy itself., [ Psychology and Alchemy ] presents the gold that Jung believes the alchemists did produce from baser metals, and it consists of their guarded, confused, heretical anticipations of modern psychology. Not only did they prepare the way for chemistry; they also showed how man may free himself from the demons of the Unconscious., "Readers . . . who believe that medieval and early modern alchemy was only a misguided effort to transform base metals into gold, or at best a crude preparation for scientific chemistry, will experience a great and probably bewildering surprise." -- Thought, Readers . . . who believe that medieval and early modern alchemy was only a misguided effort to transform base metals into gold, or at best a crude preparation for scientific chemistry, will experience a great and probably bewildering surprise., "Readers . . . who believe that medieval and early modern alchemy was only a misguided effort to transform base metals into gold, or at best a crude preparation for scientific chemistry, will experience a great and probably bewildering surprise."-- Thought

Series Volume Number9

SynopsisJung's landmark account of the connections between alchemy, its symbolism, the collective unconscious, and modern psychology Psychology and Alchemy is one of Jung's most influential works. In a prefatory note, he says: "In this present study of alchemy I have taken a particular example of symbol-formation, extending in all over some seventeen centuries, and have subjected it to intensive examination, linking it at the same time with an actual series of dreams recorded by a modern European not under my direct supervision and having no knowledge of what the symbols appearing in the dream might mean. It is by such intensive comparisons as this (and not one but many) that the hypothesis of the collective unconscious--of an activity in the human psyche making for the spiritual development of the individual human being--may be scientifically established." This is the second, completely revised edition. The book features 270 illustrations, drawn largely from old alchemical books and manuscripts, many of which were in Jung's personal collection., A study of the analogies between alchemy, Christian dogma, and psychological symbolism. Revised translation, with new bibliography and index.