Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works of C.G. Jung)

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This is a fascinating and impressively researched book about alchemical symbolism in relation to psychological transformation. I highly recommend you buy a copy.

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Copiously illustrated this volume 12 of Jung's Collected Works is the first to have been published in English translation. Parts I and II of this book illustrate and clarify the mystical journey Jung termed as the process of individuation by examining a series of dreams of the physicist Wolfgang Pauli who was undergoing Jungian analysis at that time. From the dream of a stranger's hat to the vision of the world clock Jung interprets the stages and motifs encountered on the inner and outer journey. In Part III Jung delves into the alchemical opus as the forerunner or historical antecedent of this quest. This work is an excellent introduction to the discoveries of Jung's maturity after a lifetime spent exploring the unconscious mind.

Essential Jung for those interested in personal alchemy, theurgic psychology or an understanding of the self. Jung was a unique mind and his writings here are a unique showcase of his grasp of the esoteric and the scientific in conjunction.

excellent book on the inner workings of alchemy, showing how it links well to psychology, and the pattern of lore of the psychological and alchemical worlds combined come up with, and are well portrayed here.

In great conditional an insightful read

The 3 star rating is not reflecting on Jung nor this particular work of his. Its purely due to the translation which is carpet-bombed with phrases in Latin. Most of latin bits have an English translation in parentheses but nevertheless it makes the reading ( which is not a light one to start with) very cumbersome. I am out to look for a different translation.

Jung and his colleagues were very insightful. Not much I can say bad about this book.

Jung presents the dreams of Quantum Physicist Wolfgang Pauli, recorded during Jung's analysis of Pauli. Here he maps the process of Pauli's individuation through the symbols and events in his unconscious. The modern printing of the book is just fine as it is in the rest of the series, though I received my book dog eared and creased.

A dense read, but to anyone interested in understanding Alchemy, there is no better starting place than this book. An absolute gem.

It is dense and not for everybody, but is you want to explore religion, history and psychology to better understand our current stated of affairs in the west, is highly recommended, but it comes with a big caveat, this is the kind of book that has the property to actually change you in such ways that you might not suspect so be careful.

This is probably one of Jung's most important books.The first part of the Book is a series of 70+ dreams all showing clearly alchemical symbolism. The rest is a psychological analysis of alchemical symbolism itself but shies away from being a book that spends a great deal of time explaining the alchemical opus exhaustively. I spend a lot of time dealing with dreams from myself, friends, and family; and this book along with Jung's "Psychology and Religion: East and West" really facilitated diving far deeper into the amplification part of dream analysis. (using comparative myth and dream material for deeper information in dream interpretation)To fill in the gaps and have an easier time with the followup material in Alchemical Studies and Mysterium Coniuncionis I suggest having the alchemical opus well understood as well as an understanding of western spiritualism. A read through the Corpus Hermeticum (Supposedly written by Hermes Trismegistus) for the western spiritualism and a book by Mircea Eliade called "The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy" are both great resources.I don't think anyone who plans to do psychoanalysis with a strong dreamer should be without this priceless introduction to the alchemical symbolism that occurs in dreams. I highly recommend.