Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche - Rilegato

Franz, Marie-Luise Von

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ISBN 10: 1570621330 ISBN 13: 9781570621338

Casa editrice: Shambhala Pubns, 1997

Riassunto

In the view of Jungian psychology, we are living today through a crucial transition: a period of reaction against cultural and religious forms that have become rigid and cut off from the creative wellspring of the collective unconscious. The hidden significance of this "psychic emergency" is that it spurs the development of human consciousness on toward a spiritual rebirth. In this book—the fourth and final volume in a series of collected essays—the eminent Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz uses her vast knowledge of myths, fairy tales, dreams, and visions to show how the collective psyche itself has pointed to ways of resolving the modern predicament. She discusses Mercurius, the darkly paradoxical figure from medieval alchemy; the visions of the Swiss mystic Niklaus von Flue; the "unknown visitor" motif in fairy tales; the Cosmic Man as image of the goal of human development; and many archetypal dreams of contemporary people. All of these can be seen as expressions of a collective urge in the West to reintegrate nature and the body, matter and spirit—and, ultimately, to help us find our way, individually and collectively, to a renewed unity of being and culture.

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Marie-Louise von Franz (1915 1998) was the foremost student of C. G. Jung, with whom she worked closely from 1934 until his death in 1961. A founder of the C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich, she published widely on subjects including alchemy, dreams, fairy tales, personality types, and psychotherapy.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Shambhala Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1570621330
• ISBN 13: 9781570621338
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 405
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