Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology (Studies in Jungian Psychology) Marie-Louise Von Franz
Publisher: Inner City Books

An alchemical hermeneutics avails me of many of the same symbolic spells and metaphoric magic once invoked by ancient alchemists in the ritual performance of their ensouled universe stories. It also seems as if the set of pictures in the Tarot cards were distantly descended from the archetypes of transformation, a view that has been confirmed for . 9:1, para 81), Jung wrote: “If one wants to form a picture of the symbolic process, the series of pictures found in alchemy are good examples. Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works of C.G. For example, the association promotes: Scholarship relating Jung, with his new-age following, is often perceived today as a quasi-religious sage, but Introducing Jung explores how this overlooks the fact that he was a scientist and a scholar. In The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious (CW, Vol. As a psychology grad student, I always wanted to research Jung's interest in tarot, but did not have the time. Through the development of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, the IAJS aims to aid the understanding of contemporary cultural trends and the history of psychological and cultural tendencies. Alchemy : An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology (Studies in Jungian Psychology) Alchemy : An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology by Marie-Louise von Franz My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Evans, Conversations with Carl Jung (1964); E. Hull Princeton A study of the analogies between alchemy, Christian dogma, and psychological symbolism. For Jung, the weird alchemical texts were astonishing symbolic expressions for the human experience of the processes in the unconscious. Robert Romanyshyn's “alchemical hermeneutics” as the foundation of a method in the participatory study of esotericism Robert Romanyshyn has developed a depth psychological method informed by hermeneutic phenomenology but ultimately rooted in alchemy. It was the pioneering study of comparative religion by the Swiss psychologist C.G.Jung which first revealed and discussed Christianity's far from clear relationship to the western esoteric tradition in depth. He compiled alchemy's universal truths in several of his works including Psychology and Alchemy, Alchemical Studies, Mysterium Coniunctionis, The Secret of the Golden Flower, and Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious. Studies of Jung's life and work include Gerhard Adler, Studies in Analytical Psychology (1948); Frieda Fordham, An Introduction to Jung's Psychology (1953); Ira Progoff, Jung's Psychology and Its Social Meaning (1953); Richard I. Jung codified the The works of von Franz include Alchemical Active Imagination, Projection and Recollection in Jungian Psychology, Number and Time, and Alchemy; An Introduction to the Symbolism and its Psychology, to name but a few.