Publication
Imprint: Boston, Massachusetts : Shambhala, 1999. Context: Originally published in German by Daimon Verlag, Einsiedeln, Switzerland, under the title Archetypische Dimensionen der Seele und Materie, c1994. Edition: First paperback edition. Series: A C.G. Jung Foundation book. Responsibility: Marie-Louise von Franz ; foreword by Robert Hinshaw. Physical: Text : 1 volume : x, 405 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Features: Includes bibliography, index.
Call number
Psy-J / Franz
ISBN
1570624267 / 9781570624261
Original publication date
1997
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: In the view of Jungian psychology, we are living today through a crucial transition: a period of reaction against cultural and religious forms that have become rigid and cut off from the creative wellspring of the collective unconscious. The hidden significance of this "psychic emergency" is that it spurs the development of human consciousness on toward a spiritual rebirth. In this book--the fourth and final volume in a series of collected essays--the eminent 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 spirit--and, ultimately, to help us find our way, individually and collectively, to a renewed unity of being and culture. -- from publisher
Table of 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.
FY2003 /
Table of 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.
FY2003 /
Physical description
x, 405 p.; 22 cm
Description
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;The chief disciple of C. G. Jung, analyst Marie-Louise von Franz uses her vast knowledge of the world of myths, fairy tales, visions, and dreams to examine expressions of the universal symbol of the Anthropos, or Cosmic Man--a universal archetype that embodies humanity's personal as well as collective identity. She shows that the meaning of life--the realization of our fullest human potential, which Jung called individuation--can only be found through a greater differentiation of consciousness by virtue of archetypes, and that ultimately our future depends on relationships, whether between the sexes or among nations, races, religions, and political factions.
Language
Original language
German