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Traditionally, alchemy has been understood as a precursor to the science of chemistry but from the vantage point of the human spirit, it is also a discipline that illuminates the human soul. This book explores the goal of alchemy from Jungian, psychological and philosophical perspectives.
List of contents
1. Philosophical Tensions in the Historiography of Alchemy: The History of Science and the History of the Human Spirit 2. The Eye of the Winged Serpent: Mercurius and Overcoming the Split in the Alchemical Imagination 3. Benign and Monstrous Conjunctions 4. Classical Development of Jung's Ideas of Alchemy and the Philosophers' Stone in Von Franz and Edinger 5. Innovations, Criticism, and Developments: James Hillman and Wolfgang Giegerich 6. James Hillman and Wolfgang Giegerich: Unification and Divergence in Their Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives 7. Exposition and Criticism of Giegerich's Philosophical View of Psychology Proper and the Human-All-Too-Human 8. The Problem of the Remainder: The Unassimilable Remnant-What Is at Stake? 9. The Alchemical Stove: Continuing Reflections on Hillman's and Giegerich's Views of Alchemy and the Philosophers' Stone 10. The Philosophical Basis of the Remnant in Kant's Thing-in-Itself and in Hegel's Move to Surpass It 11. A Reflection on the Black Sun and Jung's Notion of Self 12. Spirit and Soul 13. The Self, the Absolute, the Stone
About the author
Stanton Marlan is a Jungian analyst, President of the Pittsburgh Society of Jungian Analysts, and an Adjunct Professor in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University, with long-time interests in alchemy and the psychology of dreams. He is also the author of other books on psychology and alchemy, including C.G. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination: Passages into the Mysteries of Psyche and Soul.
Summary
Traditionally, alchemy has been understood as a precursor to the science of chemistry but from the vantage point of the human spirit, it is also a discipline that illuminates the human soul. This book explores the goal of alchemy from Jungian, psychological and philosophical perspectives.
