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Alchemical Active Imagination (C. G. Jung Foundation Books) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for Alchemical Active ImaginationA living disciple of C.G. Jung, Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz references a text by 16th-century alchemist and physician Gerhard Dorn in order to show alchemy as a symbolic process of psychological and spiritual transformation. Originally presented as a lecture series at the Jung Institute in Zurich, this book opens therapeutic insights into the relations among spirit, soul, and body in the practice o
Full description- Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
- Published: 31 January 1998
- Format: Paperback 144 pages
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- Categories: Psychology | Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology) | Analytical & Jungian Psychology | Popular Psychology | Magic, Alchemy & Hermetic Thought
- ISBN 13: 9780877735892 ISBN 10: 0877735891
- Sales rank: 131,137
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Full description for Alchemical Active Imagination
Although alchemy is popularly regarded as the science that sought to transmute base physical matter, many of the medieval alchemists were more interested in developing a discipline that would lead to the psychological and spiritual transformation of the individual. C. G. Jung discovered in his study of alchemical texts a symbolic and imaginal language that expressed many of his own insights into psychological processes. In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz examines a text by the sixteenth-century alchemist and physician Gerhard Dorn in order to show the relationship of alchemy to the concepts and techniques of analytical psychology. In particular, she shows that the alchemists practiced a kind of meditation similar to Jung's technique of active imagination, which enables one to dialogue with the unconscious archetypal elements in the psyche. Originally delivered as a series of lectures at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, the book opens therapeutic insights into the relations among spirit, soul, and body in the practice of active imagination.
