Art and the Creative Unconscious: The Collected Essays of Erich Neumann, Volume 1

A landmark account of how artistic expression arises from the collective unconscious

This book brings together four essays by analytical psychologist Erich Neumann, who explores the connections between creativity and the unconscious mind. The archetypes of the collective unconscious, he argues, are intrinsically formless psychic components that take form in art. The psychology of the individual in whom they appear, the mediums of expression through which they pass, and the time and place in ...