Psychology and Alchemy

In this present study of alchemy the author has 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 his direct supervision and having no knowledge of what the symbols appearing in the dreams might mean.

About the author

C. G. Jung
Translated by R.F.C. Hull

Summary

A study of the analogies between alchemy, Christian dogma, and psychological symbolism.

Additional text

"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."

Product details

• Authors: C G Jung, C. Jung, C. G. Jung, Carl Gustav Jung
• Assisted by: Gerhard Adler (Editor), R F C Hull (Editor), R. F. C. Hull (Editor), Herbert Edward Read (Editor), Gerhard Adler (Translation), R F C Hull (Translation), R. Hull (Translation), R. F. C. Hull (Translation), Gerhard Adler (Editor and translation), R. F.C. Hull (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.1992
• EAN: 9780691018317
• ISBN: 978-0-691-01831-7
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 41 mm
• Series: Collected Works of C.G. Jung; Collected Works of CG Jung; Bollingen Series (General)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis