The Alchemical Mercurius: Esoteric symbol of Jungs life and works, Mather..

The Alchemical MercuriusEsoteric symbol of Jungs life and works\nAuthor(s): Mathew Mather\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415365765, 978-0415365765\nSynopsis\nThe figure of the alchemical Mercurius features ubiquitously and radically in Jungs later works, but despite this, there has been little research concerning Mercurius in Jungian studies to date. In this book, Mathew Mather explores the figure of the alchemical Mercurius and contextualises and clarifies its significance in Jungs life and works. \n\nPlacing the alchemical Mercurius as a central concern reveals a Jungian interpretation in which the grail legend, alchemy and precessional astrology, as three thematic threads, converge. In such a treatment, Jungs belief in the dawning of a new platonic month emerges as a central consideration and an esoteric perspective on Jungs life and works is brought more fully to light, constructing a life-myth interpretat.