Silberer, Herbert

Silberer, Herbert.Hidden symbolism of alchemy and the occult arts. Translated by Smith Ely Jelifife. Translated by Smith Ely Jeliffe. New York Moffat, Yard, 1917 reprint, New York Dover, 1971. v, 45 lp. 

Silberer, Herbert. Problems of mysticism its symbolism. New York Moffat, Yard, 1917. 451p. 

Silberer, Herbert. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts. New York Dover, 1971. 

An examination of the psychological interpretation of alchemy, viz., that self change is the goal of alchemy, and this is expressed through symbols. The work of three men is discussed Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1798-1870), Herbert Silberer (1881-1923), and C. G. Jung (1875-1961)... 

Alton J. Banks, Ph.D. Thomas A. Holme, Doris K. Kolb, Ph.D. Herbert Silber, Ph.D. 

Many individuals have contributed greatly and in many ways to this Encyclopedia. The associate editors—Alton J. Banks, Thomas Holme, Doris Kolb, and Herbert Silber—carried the major responsibility in shaping the intellectual content of the Encyclopedia. The authors of the articles executed that plan admirably and we thank them for that effort. 

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... 

Herbert Silberer, a German psychologist, has taken this interpretation of incest even more literally, hi his book The Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy, published in 1917, he examines a vision... 

Herbert Silberer, Problems of Mysticism and its Symbolism, trans. Smith Ely Jelliffe (1917 reprinted New York, 1970), pp. 379-407 cf. Carl Jung, The Practice of Psychotherapy, trans. R.F.C. Hull in Collected Works of C.G.Jun The First Complete Edition, eds. Sir Herbert Read, Michael Fordham and Gerhard Adler (20 vols., London New York Routledge, 2014), vol. 16, pp. 296-302 [506-18]. 

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