Alchemy Jung, Carl

Jung, Carl Gustav. Psychology and alchemy. Bollingen Foundation, 1980. ISBN 0691018316... 

Jung, Carl Gustav. Jung on alchemy selected and introduced by Nathan Schwartz- Salant. Edited by Nathan Schwartz- Salant. London Routledge, 1994. 

Jung, Carl Gustav.Mysterium coniunctionis an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy translated by R. F. C. Hull. 2nd ed. ed. Translated by R.F.C. Hull. Princeton (NJ) Princeton Univ P, 1970. xix, 702 p. 

Jung, Carl G. Psychology and Alchemy. 2d ed. From The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. 12. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1953. 

Franz, Marie Louise von, Alchemy An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, Toronto Inner City Books, 1980 Gilchrist, Cherry, Everyday Alchemy, London Rider, 2002 Jung, Carl Gustav, Psychology and Alchemy, London Routledge, 1990... 

Jung, Carl G. Psychology and Alchemy. New York Pantheon Books, 1952. 

Carl Gustav Jung, Psychology and Alchemy (second edition London Routledge, 1968), 281. 

Mrs Atwood, in stressing the entirely inner aspect of the work, paves the way for the purely psychological interpretation of alchemy that was first espoused by Herbert Silberer in 1914, whose work was later eclipsed by that of Carl Jung. However, Silberer s work showed that regarding alchemy as anything other than mediaeval mumbo jumbo could still be fatal he showed his... 

While the work of Carl Jung and others have underscored the archetypal power and universal significance of alchemical symbols, alchemy itself is much more than a psychological commentary on the nature of the human psyche. It is true that alchemy reflects the highest aspirations of the human soul, for our gold has always symbolized the hastened perfection of Man as well as matter. However, any alchemist worth his salt knows that lasting transformation only takes place when the work is accomplished on all levels of reality—the mental, the spiritual, and the physical. The Great Work is actual work to be done with the hands, the heart, and the soul, and not just understood with the mind. 

Above Carl Jung (left), the great psychologist, was particularly attracted by the symbolism of alchemy, finding within its images many of the archetypes he believed were embedded deep within mankind s collective unconscious, beyond conscious memory. 

Symbols and metaphors allow us to represent phenomena we do not fully understand and thoughts having no rational translations. Four centuries ago, the wolf represented the biting behavior of antimony (or its sulfide) on base metals. At a much deeper, subconscious level we may employ sexual imagery to convey perceptions of the male and female nature of things. For millennia, these dualities were projected to explain properties of matter that could be understood only symbolically. It is no wonder that the psychologist Carl Jung wrote extensively on the symbolism of alchemy. ... 

Where did Bachelard get such a critical view of the history of chemistry He relied on Carl Jung s view that alchemy was more a spiritual initiation than a material activity, a symbolic activity, and the expression of ahistorical subconscious structures of the human mind. He also relied on scholarly secondary sources. He often quoted Helene Metzger s Les doctrines chimiques en France (1923) and occasionally Alexandre Koju e on Jacob Boehme. However, he retained from them only what reinforced his view that alchemy was less an intellectual initiation than a moral initiation [Bachelard, 1938, 5]. Bachelard also relied on a few primary... 

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