| Description |
x, 405 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Highlights of the Historical Dimension of Analysis -- Antichrist or Merlin?: A Problem Inherited from the Middle Ages -- The Transformed Berserker: The Union of Psychic Opposites -- The Unknown Visitor in Fairy Tales and Dreams -- The Problem of Evil in Fairy Tales -- The Bremen Town Musicians from the Point of View of Depth Psychology -- The Cosmic Man as Image of the Goal of the Individuation Process and Human Development -- The Self-Affirmation of Man and Woman: A General Problematic Illustrated by Fairy Tales -- In the Black Woman's Castle: Interpretation of a Fairy Tale -- The Discovery of Meaning in the Individuation Process -- Individuation and Social Relationship in Jungian Psychology -- Nike and the Waters of the Styx -- The Individuation Process -- Jung's Discovery of the Self |
| Summary |
In this book Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz uses her vast knowledge of myths, fairy tales, dreams, and visions to show how the collective psyche itself has pointed to ways of resolving the modern predicament. She discusses Mercurius, the darkly paradoxical figure from medieval alchemy; the visions of the Swiss mystic Niklaus von Flue; the "unknown visitor" motif in fairy tales; the Cosmic Man as image of the goal of human development; and many archetypal dreams of contemporary people. All of these can be seen as expressions of a collective urge in the West to reintegrate nature and the body, matter and spiritand, ultimately, to help us find our way, individually and collectively, to a renewed unity of being and culture |
| Notes |
"A C.G. Jung Foundation book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-396) and index |
| Subject |
Archetype (Psychology)
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Jungian psychology.
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| LC no. |
96038919 |
| ISBN |
1570621330 (alk. paper) |
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