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Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology (Studies in Jungian Psychology) by Marie-Louise Von Franz

Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology (Studies in Jungian Psychology) Marie-Louise Von Franz ebook
ISBN: 091912304X, 9780919123045
Format: pdf
Publisher: Inner City Books
Page: 300

Jung regarded the unconscious as crucial to our psychological development, and he spent a significant portion of his life researching this aspect of life, as revealed in symbolic form through dreams and other spiritual experiences. Jung who provides the beginnings of a critical, modern explanation of the collective unconscious, drawing on his studies of medicine, Eastern and Western philosophy, mythology, art, dreams, alchemy and astrology. Of course it is rich in symbols, but true symbols are much more powerful and alive than they are considered to be in modern thought, even Jung's. He regarded his This convinced him that his agenda should be to pay more attention to Western spirituality, and his later writings show deep interests in Western mystical traditions, esoteric Christianity, and especially alchemy. Jung tended to see the symbolism of alchemy as analogous to the process of individuation and the goal of alchemy as the attainment of psychological wholeness. Jung discovered that the ancient art of alchemy was describing, in symbolic language, the journey that all of us must take towards embodying our own intrinsic wholeness, what he called the process of “ individuation.” As Jung wrote, “I had very soon seen that analytical psychology [the psychology Jung developed] coincided in a most curious way with alchemy. Carl Jung lists nine occasions for successful termination of analysis in the (1953/1968) “Introduction to the Religious and Psychological Problems of Alchemy.” However he says Eastern man, on the other hand, experiences the world of particulars, and even his own ego, like a dream; he is rooted essentially in the “Ground,” which attracts him so powerfully that his relations with the world are relativized to a degree that is often incomprehensible to us. Daniel Goleman, in the introduction to his book The Meditative Mind, describes the situation at the time. The various components of the psyche; for though it included repressed urges, egoic impulses and other complexes it did not sufficiently explain timeless patterns of human behaviour or symbolism, which Jung called archetypes. So how do you account for his reductionism? He states Goleman became intensely interested in meditation and as a graduate student in psychology went to Asia to study the meditative traditions in their original setting. However, there is no established curriculum. Rowe: But he devoted a tremendous amount of time and energy to studying alchemy, and you agree that he understood its psychological value and significance. Trojani: It It is not a discipline for those who don't love research, at least not in our era.