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Title: Alchemical Studies (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.13) by C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull ISBN: 0-691-01849-9 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 August, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not quintessential, but good.
Comment: "The really important psychic facts can neither be measured, weighed, nor seen in a test tube or under a microscope. They are therefore supposedly indeterminable, in other words, they must be left to people who have an inner sense of them, just as colours must be shown to the seeing and not to the blind." (Jung p. 238) This sentence reflects much of what this book is about. It highlights the drive behind Jung's attempt to make the invisible visible through an analysis of alchemical thought; it shows his complicated sentence structure and presents some of the hurdles one will have to jump in order to comprehend Jung's work on Alchemy. The preceding volume 12, "Psychology and Alchemy," would serve as a good introduction to this volume, and volume 14, "Mysterium Coniunctionis," might make Jung's thesis easier to comprehend.
This volume of collected works contains his commentary to "The Secret of The Golden Flower" which is almost useless without the actual Golden Flower text. It also contains Jung's analysis and commentary on some of the major metaphors of Alchemy.
According to Jung, Alchemy was the precursor of Western psychology, and that alchemists projected their mental/spiritual states unto the inanimate objects and processes of Alchemy. This work examines these projections in the light of modern consciousness and with the process of individuation in mind. `
Stripped to its essence, Jung's psychological theory states that humans have an unknown meta-consciousness that some will discover through a process he called individuation. This is a recapitulation of the ideas found in all religions, but is here represented by Jung in the terms of modern Western Culture as a scientific analysis of the Soul through an analysis of Alchemy.
Several years ago I read through this text without a clue as to what Jung was talking about, but found some of his observations noteworthy. About two years ago I had some experiences that made the insights contained in this book valuable, and I found that my previous reading allowed me to understand what I had read retrospectively. It also helped me in understanding aspects of Chinese Alchemy as metaphor. It is not recommended to casual readers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Jung's pioneering researches....
Comment: ...into the world of alchemy made the world aware of how rich a symbol-system had been lost from time out of mind. It was Jung who discovered that alchemy, a "chymical" art compensatory to the Christian emphasis on spirit over matter, also represented a projected psychology of the unconscious; it was, in fact, a forerunner of depth psychology itself.
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Title: Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.12) by C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull ISBN: 0691018316 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 1980 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Mysterium Coniunctionis (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.14) by C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull ISBN: 0691018162 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 August, 1977 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Aion (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 2) by C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull ISBN: 069101826X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 1979 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Spirit in Man, Art, & Literature (Collected Works of Jung Vol. 15) by C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull ISBN: 0691017751 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 1971 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 1) by C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull ISBN: 0691018332 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 August, 1981 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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