Jung on alchemy

Subtitle:
Selected and introduced by Nathan Schwartz-Salant

Series Title:
Encountering Jung

Authors:
Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav) 1875-1961
Schwartz-Salant, Nathan 1938- (Introduction)

Editor:
Schwartz-Salant, Nathan 1938-

Place of Publication:
Princeton, New Jersey

Publisher:
Princeton University Press


ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
0691010978

Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)

Media Sub-type:
Book

LoC Call Number:
BL 265 .C4 J86 O6 1995

Accession Number:
062717

Keyword Subject Headings:
Alchemy--Psychological aspects
Alchemy and psychotherapy
Alchemy--Religious and spiritual aspects
Individuation (Jungian psychology)
Projection (Psychology)
Imagination--Psychological aspects
Opposites--Psychological aspects--In alchemy

User Notes:
Paperbound; 228 pp., including 22 black-and-white illustrations, bibliographic references in notes following each chapter, and an index. The contents of this book comprise excerpts from the Collected Works of C.G. Jung as well as Jung's "Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given 1934-1939." Contents: List of illustrations Introduction / Nathan Schwartz-Salant 1. The 'prima materia' 2. The alchemical mind 3. Projection and imagination in alchemy 4. Alchemy and individuation 5. Alchemy and religion 6. The body and subtle body in alchemy 7. Opposites and the 'coniunctio' 8. Alchemy and psychotherapy Index