Psychology and alchemy

Hardbound; xxxvi + 571 pp., including 270 black-and-white illustrations, bibliographic references in footnotes, a bibliography, and an index. The first edition of CW 12 was published in 1953; the second edition "completely revised" was published in 1968. The revised, second edition is the terminal version of CW 12, as reflected in Princeton's digital edition of Jung's Collected Works, which is also among the Library's holdings. Vol. 12 of the Collected Works was the first to be published. The contents of CW 12 were first published in German under the title "Psychologie und Alchemie" by Rasher Verlag, Zurich, in 1944, with a second, revised German edition in 1952. Publication histories of the 3 principal papers included in CW 12 are provided in the editorial notes, translator's note, and the "Foreword to the Swiss Edition." Notably, the essay "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy" has an extensive publication history -- both prior and subsequent to the version that is published in CW 12. An earlier version ("Dream Symbols of the Process of Individuation") was included in the book "The Integration of the Personality" (translated by Stanley Dell; Farrar and Rinehart, Inc.; 1939). The same material was covered by Jung in greater depth in lectures given on Bailey Island, Maine, and in New York in 1936-37, notes from which have been published as a book under the title "Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process: Notes of C.G. Jung's Seminars on Wolfgang Pauli's Dreams" (Princeton/Philemon; 2019). Both "The Integration of the Personality" and "Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process" are among the Library's holdings. Contents: Prefatory note to the English edition Editorial note to the first edition Editorial note to the second edition Translator's note Foreword to the Swiss edition List of illustrations Part I: Introduction to the religious and psychological problems of alchemy Part II: Individual dream symbolism in relation to alchemy Chapter 1. Introduction I. The material II. the method Chapter 2. The initial dreams Chapter 3. The symbolism of the mandala I. Concerning the mandala II. The mandalas in the dreams III. The vision of the world clock IV. The symbol of the Self Part III: Religious ideas in alchemy Chapter 1. Basic concepts of alchemy I. Introduction II. The alchemical process and its stages III. Conceptions and symbols of the goal Chapter 2. The psychic nature of the alchemical work I. The projection of psychic contents II. The mental attitude towards the opus III. Meditation and imagination IV. Soul and body Chapter 3. The work I. The method II. The spirit in matter III. The work of redemption Chapter 4. The prima materia I. Synonyms for the materia II. The increatum III. Ubiquity and perfection IV. The king and the king's son V. The myth of the hero VI. The hidden treasure Chapter 5. The lapis-Christ parallel I. The renewal of life II. Evidence for the religious interpretation of the lapis a. Raymond Lully b. Tractatus aureus c. Zosimos and the doctrine of the anthropos d. Petrus Bonus e. "Aurora consurgens" and the doctrine of sapientia f. Melchior Cibinensis and the alchemical paraphrase of the mass g. Sir George Ripley h. The epigoni Chapter 6. Alchemical symbolism in the history of religion I. The unconscious as the matrix of symbols II. The paradigm of the unicorn a. The unicorn in alchemy b. The unicorn in ecclesiastical allegory c. The unicorn in Gnosticism d. The one-horned scarabaeus e. The unicorn in the Vedas f. The unicorn in Persia g. The unicorn in Jewish tradition h. The unicorn in China i. The unicorn cup Epilogue Bibliography Index