Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 12: Psychology and Alchemy / Edition 2

by C. G. Jung

Overview

A study of the analogies between alchemy, Christian dogma, and psychological symbolism. Revised translation, with new bibliography and index.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691097718
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	08/21/1968
Series:	The Collected Works of C. G. Jung , #236
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

• FrontMatter, pg. i
• Prefatory Note to The English Edition, pg. v
• Editorial Note to the First Edition, pg. vii
• Editorial Note to the Second Edition, pg. viii
• Translator's Note, pg. ix
• Foreword to the Swiss Edition, pg. x
• Table of Contents, pg. xi
• List of Illustrations, pg. xv
• Note of Acknowledgment, pg. xxxv
• I. INTRODUCTION TO THE RELIGIOUS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF ALCHEMY, pg. 1
• 1. INTRODUCTION, pg. 39
• 2. THE INITIAL DREAMS, pg. 47
• I. CONCERNING THE MANDALA, pg. 95
• II. THE MANDALAS IN THE DREAMS, pg. 103
• III. THE VISION OF THE WORLD CLOCK, pg. 203
• IV. THE SYMBOLS OF THE SELF, pg. 215
• 1. BASIC CONCEPTS OF ALCHEMY, pg. 225
• 2. THE PSYCHIC NATURE OF THE ALCHEMICAL WORK, pg. 242
• 3. THE WORK, pg. 288
• 4. THE PRIMA MATERIA, pg. 317
• I. THE RENEWAL OF LIFE, pg. 345
• II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. a. Raymond Lxilly, pg. 357
• II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. b. Tractatas aureus, pg. 358
• II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. c. Zosimos and the Doctrine of the Anthropos, pg. 360
• II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. d. Petrus Bonus, pg. 373
• II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. e. “Aurora consurgens” and the Doctrine of Sapientia, pg. 376
• II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. f. Melchior Cibinensis and the Alchemical Paraphrase of the Mass, pg. 396
• II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS g. Sir George Ripley, pg. 406
• II. EVIDENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE LAPIS. h. The Epigoni, pg. 423
• 6. ALCHEMICAL SYMBOLISM IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGION, pg. 432
• EPILOGUE, pg. 473
• BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 485
• INDEX, pg. 525

Editorial Reviews

"Readers . . . who believe that medieval and early modern alchemy was only a misguided effort to transform base metals into gold, or at best a crude preparation for scientific chemistry, will experience a great and probably bewildering surprise."

Thought

"Readers . . . who believe that medieval and early modern alchemy was only a misguided effort to transform base metals into gold, or at best a crude preparation for scientific chemistry, will experience a great and probably bewildering surprise."—Thought

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