The Origins and History of Consciousness

The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. In this influential book, Neumann shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, the tail-eating serpent. The intermediate stages are projected in the universal myths of the World Creation, Great Mother, Separation of the World Parents, Birth of the Hero, Slaying of the Dragon, Rescue of the Captive, and Transformation and Deification of the Hero. Throughout the sequence, the Hero is the evolving ego consciousness. Featuring a foreword by Jung, this Princeton Classics edition introduces a new generation of readers to this eloquent and enduring work.

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• Authors: Neumann, Erich Neumann, Erich/ Jung Neumann, Neumann Erich
• Assisted by: C. G. Jung (Foreword), R. Hull (Translation), R. F. C. Hull (Translation), R. F.C. Hull (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2014
• EAN: 9780691163598
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16359-8
• No. of pages: 552
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 218 mm x 37 mm
• Series: Princeton University Press; Princeton Classics; Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology; Princeton University Press (WILDGuides); Bollingen Series (General); Princeton Classics; Bollingen Series; Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology; Works by Erich Neumann
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; History of Ideas, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, HISTORY / Social History, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, The self, ego, identity, personality, Folklore, myths & legends, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)