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Alchemical Studies /
Five long essays that trace Jung's developing interest in alchemy from 1929 onward. An introduction and supplement to his major works on the subject, illustrated with 42 patients' drawings and paintings.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Princeton University Press,
1970.
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| Edición: | Complete digital edition. |
| Colección: | Bollingen series ;
20. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Editorial Note; Contents; List of Illustrations; I Commentary on "The Secret of the Golden Flower"; Foreword to the Second German Edition; 1. Difficulties Encountered by a European in Trying to Understand the East; 2. Modern Psychology Offers a Possibility of Understanding; 3. The Fundamental Concepts; A. Tao; B. The Circular Movement and the Centre; 4. Phenomena of the Way; A. The Disintegration of Consciousness; B. Animus and Anima; 5. The Detachment of Consciousness from the Object; 6. The Fulfilment; 7. Conclusion; Examples of European Mandalas.
- II The Visions of ZosimosI. The Texts; II. Commentary; 1. General Remarks on the Interpretation; 2. The Sacrificial Act; 3. The Personifications; 4. The Stone Symbolism; 5. The Water Symbolism; 6. The Origin of the Vision; III Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon; Foreword to Paracelsica; 1. The Two Sources of Knowledge: The Light of Nature and the Light of Revelation; A. Magic; B. Alchemy; C. The Arcane Teaching; D. The Primordial Man; 2. "De vita longa": An Exposition of the Secret Doctrine; A. The Iliaster; B. The Aquaster; C. Ares; D. Melusina.
- E. The Filius Regius as the Arcane Substance (Michael Maier)F. The Production Of the One, or Centre, By Distillation; G. The Coniunctio in the Spring; 3. The Natural Transformation Mystery; A. The Light of the Darkness; B. The Union of Man's Two Natures; C. The Quaternity of the Homo Maximus; D. The Rapprochement with the Unconscious; 4. The Commentary of Gerard Dorn; A. Melusina and the Process of Individuation; B. The Hierosgamos of the Everlasting Man; C. Spirit and Nature; D. The Ecclesiastical Sacrament and the Opus Alchymicum; 5. Epilogue; IV The Spirit Mercurius; Part I.
- 1. The Spirit in the Bottle2. The Connection between Spirit and Tree; 3. The Problem of Freeing Mercurius; Part II; 1. Introductory; 2. Mercurius as Quicksilver and/or Water; 3. Mercurius as Fire; 4. Mercurius as Spirit and Soul; A. Mercurius as an Aerial Spirit; B. Mercurius as Soul; C. Mercurius as Spirit in the Incorporeal, Metaphysical Sense; 5. The Dual Nature of Mercurius; 6. The Unity and Trinity of Mercurius; 7. The Relation of Mercurius to Astrology and the Doctrine of the Archons; 8. Mercurius and Hermes; 9. Mercurius as the Arcane Substance; 10. Summary; V The Philosophical Tree.
- I. Individual Representations of the Tree SymbolII. On the History and Interpretation of the Tree Symbol; 1. The Tree as an Archetypal Image; 2. The Tree in the Treatise of Jodocus Greverus; 3. The Tetrasomia; 4. The Image of Wholeness; 5. The Nature and Origin of the Philosophical Tree; 6. Dorn's Interpretation of the Tree; 7. The Rose-Coloured Blood and the Rose; 8. The Alchemical Mind; 9. Various Aspects of the Tree; 10. The Habitat of the Tree; 11. The Inverted Tree; 12. Bird and Snake; 13. The Feminine Tree-Numen; 14. The Tree as the Lapis; 15. The Dangers of the Art.