Jung's Alchemical Philosophy

Psyche and the Mercurial Play of Image and Idea
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-03-210551-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Reihe: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Winner of the IAJS Book Award 2023 for Best Theoretical Book

Traditionally, alchemy has been understood as a precursor to the science of chemistry but from the vantage point of the human spirit, it is also a discipline that illuminates the human soul. This book explores the goal of alchemy from Jungian, psychological, and philosophical perspectives.

Jung’s Alchemical Philosophy: Psyche and the Mercurial Play of Image and Idea is a reflection on Jung’s alchemical work and the importance of philosophy as a way of understanding alchemy and its contributions to Jung’s psychology. By engaging these disciplines, Marlan opens new vistas on alchemy and the circular and ouroboric play of images and ideas, shedding light on the alchemical opus and the transformative processes of Jungian psychology. Divides in the history of alchemy and in the alchemical imagination are addressed as Marlan deepens the process by turning to a number of interpretations that illuminate both the enigma of the Philosophers’ Stone and the ferment in the Jungian tradition.

This book will be of interest to Jungian analysts and those who wish to explore the intersection of philosophy and psychology as it relates to alchemy.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marlan, Stanton

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Philosophical Tensions in the Historiography of Alchemy: The History of Science and the History of the Human Spirit 2. The Eye of the Winged Serpent: Mercurius and Overcoming the Split in the Alchemical Imagination 3. Benign and Monstrous Conjunctions 4. Classical Development of Jung’s Ideas of Alchemy and the Philosophers’ Stone in Von Franz and Edinger 5. Innovations, Criticism, and Developments: James Hillman and Wolfgang Giegerich 6. James Hillman and Wolfgang Giegerich: Unification and Divergence in Their Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives 7. Exposition and Criticism of Giegerich’s Philosophical View of Psychology Proper and the Human-All-Too-Human 8. The Problem of the Remainder: The Unassimilable Remnant—What Is at Stake? 9. The Alchemical Stove: Continuing Reflections on Hillman’s and Giegerich’s Views of Alchemy and the Philosophers’ Stone 10. The Philosophical Basis of the Remnant in Kant’s Thing-in-Itself and in Hegel’s Move to Surpass It 11. A Reflection on the Black Sun and Jung’s Notion of Self 12. Spirit and Soul 13. The Self, the Absolute, the Stone

Über Autor(innen)

Stanton Marlan is a Jungian analyst, President of the Pittsburgh Society of Jungian Analysts, and an Adjunct Professor in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University, with long-time interests in alchemy and the psychology of dreams. He is also the author of other books on psychology and alchemy, including C.G. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination: Passages into the Mysteries of Psyche and Soul.