Alchemical Active Imagination: Revised Edition [EPUB]

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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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E-Book Information

• Series: C. G. Jung Foundation Books

• Year: 1,997

• Edition: Revised, Subsequent

• Pages: 160

• Language: English

• Topic: 198

• Identifier: 0877735891,9780877735892

• Org File Size: 3,087,513

• Extension: epub

• Tags: Meditation Alternative Medicine Health, Fitness & Dieting History Psychology & Counseling Health, Fitness & Dieting Psychoanalysis Psychology & Counseling Health, Fitness & Dieting Reference Psychology & Counseling Health, Fitness & Dieting Magic Studies Occult & Paranormal Religion & Spirituality General & Reference Chemistry Science & Math History Psychology Psychoanalysis Psychology Reference Psychology Jungian Movements Psychology