C. G. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination by Stanton Marlan - 9780367405274

Taylor & Francis

C. G. Jung and the Alchemical ImaginationPassages into the Mysteries of Psyche and Soul\nAuthor(s): Stanton Marlan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367405274, 978-0367405274\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2021 American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Annual Book Prize for Best Theoretical Book in Psychoanalysis!\n\nStanton Marlan brings together writings which span the course of his career, examining Jungian psychology and the alchemical imagination as an opening to the mysteries of psyche and soul. \n\nSeveral chapters describe a telos that aims at the mysterious goal of the Philosophers Stone, a move replete with classical and postmodern ideas catalysed by prompts from the unconscious: dreams, images, fantasies, and paradoxical conundrums. Psyche and matter are seen with regards to soul, light and darkness in terms of illumination, and order and chaos as linked in the image of chaosmos. Marlan explores the rich.