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Title: Alchemical Active Imagination : Revised Edition by Marie-Louise von Franz ISBN: 0-87773-589-1 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 02 December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Where are you tonight, Sweet Marie?
Comment: This was the first serious modern work on alchemy that I've 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 doesn't 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 person's 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. That's 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!
Rating: 5
Summary: Correction
Comment: I haven't read this book yet but couldn't find anywhere to request that you change your information. Ms Von Franz is no longer Jung's greatest living disciple; she no longer lives in Kusnacht; she died recently, perhaps in 1998?
Rating: 5
Summary: a wonderful disquisition on alchemy and Jung...
Comment: ....from his finest student. The depth of her self-exploration-informed research shines from every page. If you can't understand why alchemy has so much to tell us about the dynamics of the unconscious and of individuation, buy this book, it's quite wonderful.
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Title: Alchemy : An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psycholog by Marie-Louise Von Franz, Marie-Louise von Franz, Von Franz Marie Louise ISBN: 091912304X Publisher: Inner City Books Pub. Date: January, 1981 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Jung and the Alchemical Imagination (Jung on the Hudson Book Series) by Jeffrey Raff ISBN: 0892540451 Publisher: Nicholas-Hays, Inc. Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: On Divination and Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance. Originally Presented As Lectures at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich by Marie-Louise von Franz ISBN: 0919123023 Publisher: Inner City Books Pub. Date: December, 1980 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Jung on Active Imagination by C. G. Jung, Joan Chodorow ISBN: 0691015767 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 07 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy by Edward F. Edinger ISBN: 0812690095 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: February, 1991 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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