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Alchemical Active Imagination

By Franz, Marie-Louise Von

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Alchemical Active Imagination

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A leading Jungian psychologist reveals the relationship between alchemy and analytical psychology, delving into the visionary work of a sixteenth-century alchemist   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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
1997-12-02
Publication Date:
1997-12-02
Publisher:
Shambhala
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0877735891
ISBN13:
9780877735892
Weight:
209 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
215 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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