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.
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Book Title: Alchemical Active Imagination : Revised Edition
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Topic: Movements / Jungian, History
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 1997
Features: Revised
Genre: Psychology
Item Weight: 7.1 Oz
Author: Marie-Louise Von Franz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Book Series: C. G. Jung Foundation Books Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
