Alchemical Active Imagination Revised Edition

Name: Alchemical Active Imagination Revised Edition
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ISBN: 9780877735892

ISBN-10: 0877735891

ISBN-13: 9780877735892

Edition: Revised

Authors: Marie-Louise von Franz

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Although alchemy is popularly regarded as the science that sought to transmute base physical matter, many of the medieval alchemists were more interested in developing a discipline that would lead to the psychological and spiritual transformation of the individual. C. G. Jung discovered in his study of alchemical texts a symbolic and imaginal language that expressed many of his own insights into psychological processes. In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz examines a text by the sixteenth-century alchemist and physician Gerhard Dorn in order to show the relationship of alchemy to the concepts and techniques of analytical psychology. In particular, she shows that the alchemists practiced a…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/2/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Origins of Alchemy: Extraverted and Introverted Traditions



Divine Power in Matter



The Problem of the Body and the Redemption of the Christian Shadow



Mind and Body in the Castle of Philosophical Love



Medieval Magic and Modern Synchronicity



Vir Unus / Unus Mundus


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