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Alchemical Active Imagination

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.

Alchemical Active Imagination

Cross Currents of Jungian Thought

The last several decades have witnessed a remarkable explosion of interest in the work of C. G. Jung. Nearly eight hundred books on Jungian subjects-ranging from ancient myths and symbols to the latest thinking on feminine and masculine psychology-have been issued to date-many of them in several editions. This comprehensive bibliography provides complete facts of publication and annotations for these English-language titles, including Jung's own writings, books about his life and work, and works by Jungian analysts and other Jungian-oriented writers, published up to 1990. The annotated listings-arranged chronologically to give an evolutionary view-provide an introduction to Jungian psychology by means of a twelve-fold classification of subjects. Further listings arranged by author and title make the book a complete reference tool. In addition, information on publishers of Jungian-oriented books and Jungian organizations is included in the appendixes.

 Cross Currents of Jungian Thought

Dreams

These collected essays by the distinguished psychoanalyst Marie-Louise von Franz offer fascinating insights into the study of dreams, not only psychologically, but also from historical, religious, and philosophical points of view. In the first two chapters, the author offers general explanations of the nature of dreams and their use in analysis. She examines how dreams can be used in the development of self-knowledge and describes how C. G. Jung worked with his own dreams, and the fateful ways in which they were entwined with the course of his life.

The rest of the book records and interprets dreams of historical personages: Socrates, Descartes, Themistocles and Hannibal, and the mothers of Saint Augustine, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, and Saint Dominic. Connections are revealed between the personal and family histories of the dreamers and individual and collective mores of their times. Dreams includes writings long out of print or never before available in English translation.

Dreams

From Freud to Jung

This comparative study of the basic concepts of Freud and Jung is designed to give a comprehensive understanding of Jung's work. The author traces the development of Jung from his initial fascination with Freud's ideas to his gradual liberation from these powerful concepts and the final breakthrough into his own unique theories of man and the cosmos. Jung's fundamental view-that the psyche is a totality of conscious and unconscious elements that seeks to realize itself-stands in sharp contrast to Freud's early view of the psyche as primarily the effect of prior causes. Hence Freud tends to stress the pathological, whereas Jung looks to the creative and self-transcending aspects of human nature. The final section of the book describes the development of Jung's ideas after the death of Freud, particularly his concept of the archetypes. 

From Freud to Jung

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