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Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 12: Psychology and Alchemy / Edition 2

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ISBN-10:: 0691097712
ISBN-13:: 9780691097718
Pub. Date:: 08/21/1968
Publisher:: Princeton University Press

ISBN-10:: 0691097712
ISBN-13:: 9780691097718
Pub. Date:: 08/21/1968
Publisher:: Princeton University Press

Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 12: Psychology and Alchemy / Edition 2

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Jung’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.

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ISBN-13:	9780691097718
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	08/21/1968
Series:	The Collected Works of C. G. Jung , #234
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

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C. G. Jung (1875–1961) was one of the most important psychologists of the twentieth century.

FrontMatter, pg. i
Prefatory Note to The English Edition, pg. v
Editorial Note to the First Edition, pg. vii
Editorial Note to the Second Edition, pg. viii
Translator's Note, pg. ix
Foreword to the Swiss Edition, pg. x
Table of Contents, pg. xi
List of Illustrations, pg. xv
Note of Acknowledgment, pg. xxxv
I. INTRODUCTION TO THE RELIGIOUS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF ALCHEMY, pg. 1
1. INTRODUCTION, pg. 39
2. THE INITIAL DREAMS, pg. 47
I. CONCERNING THE MANDALA, pg. 95
II. THE MANDALAS IN THE DREAMS, pg. 103
III. THE VISION OF THE WORLD CLOCK, pg. 203
IV. THE SYMBOLS OF THE SELF, pg. 215
1. BASIC CONCEPTS OF ALCHEMY, pg. 225
2. THE PSYCHIC NATURE OF THE ALCHEMICAL WORK, pg. 242
3. THE WORK, pg. 288
4. THE PRIMA MATERIA, pg. 317
I. THE RENEWAL OF LIFE, pg. 345
II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. a. Raymond Lxilly, pg. 357
II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. b. Tractatas aureus, pg. 358
II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. c. Zosimos and the Doctrine of the Anthropos, pg. 360
II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. d. Petrus Bonus, pg. 373
II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. e. “Aurora consurgens” and the Doctrine of Sapientia, pg. 376
II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. f. Melchior Cibinensis and the Alchemical Paraphrase of the Mass, pg. 396
II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS g. Sir George Ripley, pg. 406
II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. h. The Epigoni, pg. 423
6. ALCHEMICAL SYMBOLISM IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGION, pg. 432
EPILOGUE, pg. 473
BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 485
INDEX, pg. 525

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"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."

Thought

"[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."

New York Times Book Review

"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

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