Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology

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by  Marie-Louise von Franz

Alchemy : An Introduction to the Symbolism and the
title:
Psychology Studies in Jungian Psychology ; 5
author: Franz, Marie-Louise von.
publisher: Inner City Books
isbn10 | asin: 091912304X
print isbn13: 9780919123045
ebook isbn13: 9780585147840
language: English
subject Alchemy.
publication date: 1980
lcc: QD26.F7eb
ddc: 540/.1/12
subject: Alchemy.
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Alchemy
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Marie-Louise von Franz, Honorary Patron
Studies in Jungian Psychology
by Jungian Analysts
Daryl Sharp, General Editor
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Alchemy
An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology
Marie-Louise von Franz
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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Franz, Marie-Louise von, 1915-
Alchemy
(Studies in Jungian Psychology ; 5)
Based on a series of lectures given in 1959 at the C.G. Jung
Institute in Zurich, Switzerland.
Includes Index.
ISBN 0-919123-04-X (pbk.)
1. Alchemy. 2. Symbolism (Psychology) 3. Dreams.
4. Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961. I. Title.
II. Series.
QD26.F73 540'.1'12019 C81-094010-8
Copyright © 1980 by Marie-Louise von Franz.
All rights reserved.
INNER CITY BOOKS
Box 1271, Station Q, Toronto, Canada M4T 2P4
Honorary Patron: Marie-Louise von Franz.
Publisher and General Editor: Daryl Sharp.
Editorial Board: Fraser Boa, Daryl Sharp, Marion Woodman.
INNER CITY BOOKS is devoted to the publication of Studies in Jungian
Psychology by Jungian Analysts. Inquiries regarding manuscripts may be
addressed to the Editor.
Marie-Louise von Franz is a Jungian Analyst practising in Kusnacht,
Switzerland.
Cover: Crowned dragon as Ouroboros, symbol of the alchemical work as a
circular, self-contained process. (See Illustration 16)
Set in English Times by Ann Yeoman, Toronto.
Printed and bound in Canada
by University of Toronto Press Incorporated
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Contents
Acknowledgements 6
List of Illustrations and Credits 7
Lecture 1. Introduction 13
Lecture 2. Greek Alchemy 39
Lecture 3. Greek Alchemy 65
Lecture 4. Greek/Arabic Alchemy 93
Lecture 5. Arabic Alchemy 125
Lecture 6. Arabic Alchemy 155
Lecture 7. Aurura consurgens 177
Lecture 8. Aurora consurgens 207
Lecture 9. Aurora consurgens 241
Index 273
Please see final pages for Catalogue
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Acknowledgements
This book is based on the transcription by Miss Una Thomas of the lecture series
presented by Dr. von Franz at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich, in 1959. The
author and publisher are grateful to Miss Thomas for her faithful preparation of
the original version. The text in its present form was edited for publication by
Daryl Sharp and Marion Woodman. Daryl Sharp selected the illustrations, wrote
the captions, and compiled the index.
The philosophical egg is both birthplace of, and container
for, the new attitudes symbolised by the alchemical goal
of the coniunctio, the union of opposites (male and female,
consciousness and the unconscious, etc.). Here that goal
is pictured as hermaphrodite in triumph over the dragon and
the winged globe of chaos, threatening faces of the
unconscious. The seven planets represent different aspects of
the personality and the seven stages of transformation.
Jamsthaler, Viatorium spagyricum (1625).