Alchemical Active Imagination : Revised Edition (C. G. Jung Foundation Books)

 

Alchemical Active Imagination : Revised Edition (C. G. Jung Foundation Books)
Alchemical Active Imagination : Revised Edition (C. G. Jung Foundation Books)
by Authors: Marie-Louise von Franz
Released: 02 December, 1997
ISBN: 0877735891
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Alchemical Active Imagination : Revised Edition (C. G. Jung Foundation Books) > Customer Review #1:
Where are you tonight, Sweet Marie?

This was the first serious modern work on alchemy that Ive read, and boy did I luck out! It is a work charged with authenticity and vision. von Franz gives you some historical background on the origins of alchemy, then introduces this 16th century alchemist, Gerhard Dorn, and his inner and outer struggle to illuminate and heal the schism between spiritual alchemy and Western Christianity. Dorn doesnt come to any happy conclusions, but the chapter on Medieval Magic is worth the entire read. It includes a serious attempt to examine the question of evil (oh thank you!)and the historical process of projecting the contents of the psyche onto some aspect of the body. Also an inspiring section on the "cloud" as symbol in alchemy and christian mysticism for the confusing and darkening part of a persons journey inward to her own core. Also, peppered throughout are juicy tidbits about things like necromancy, pyromancy, hydromancy and something Jung himself was into for a while called Geomancy--which she explains in a brief but fascinating aside. The book is developed from transcripts of a 1969 lecture she gave in Zurich at the Jung Institute. It reads like a lecture, with the rythmns and addendums of the spoken word mostly intact, but obviously translated. Thats ok--it flows like pure gold and is a great window into this whole Zurich scene and the living body of work that von Franz and Jung together embodied. This little work is bound to inspire and fuel some aspect of your own imagination. Enjoy!

Alchemical Active Imagination : Revised Edition (C. G. Jung Foundation Books) > Customer Review #2:
Correction

I havent read this book yet but couldnt find anywhere to request that you change your information. Ms Von Franz is no longer Jungs greatest living disciple; she no longer lives in Kusnacht; she died recently, perhaps in 1998?

Alchemical Active Imagination : Revised Edition (C. G. Jung Foundation Books) > Customer Review #3:
a wonderful disquisition on alchemy and Jung...

....from his finest student. The depth of her self-exploration-informed research shines from every page. If you cant understand why alchemy has so much to tell us about the dynamics of the unconscious and of individuation, buy this book, its quite wonderful.

 
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