Description
| Product ID: | 9780877735892 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | C. G. Jung Foundation Books Series |
| Title: | Alchemical Active Imagination |
| Subtitle: | Revised Edition |
| Authors: | Author: Marie-Louise von Franz |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Magic, alchemy and hermetic thought, Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Popular psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Popular psychology |
| Description: | A leading Jungian psychologist reveals the relationship between alchemy and analytical psychology, delving into the visionary work of a sixteenth-century alchemist 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 kind of meditation similar to Jung''s technique of active imagination, which enables one to dialogue with the unconscious archetypal elements in the psyche. Originally delivered as a series of lectures at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, the book opens therapeutic insights into the relations among spirit, soul, and body in the practice of active imagination. |
| Imprint Name: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1997-12-02 |
