Collected Works of CG Jung

399 Pages·2017·3.73 MB·English

by  C. G. Jung

* Published 1957; 2nd edn., 1970.
+ Published 1973.
* Published 1960.
+ Published 1961.
‡ Published 1956; 2nd edn., 1967. (65 plates, 43 text figures.)
* Published 1971.
+ Published 1953; 2nd edn., 1966.
‡ Published 1960 2nd edn., 1969.
* Published 1959; 2nd edn., 1968. (Part I: 79 plates, with 29 in colour.)
* Published 1964; 2nd edn., 1970. (8 plates.)
† Published 1958; 2nd edn., 1969.
* Published 1953; 2nd edn., completely revised, 1968. (270 illustrations.)
† Published 1968. (50 plates, 4 text figures.)
‡ Published 1963; 2nd edn., 1970. (10 plates.)
* Published 1966.
† Published 1954; 2nd edn., revised and augmented, 1966. (13 illustrations.)
‡ Published 1954.
* Published 1976.
† Published 1979.
B O L L I N G E N S E R I E S X X
THE COLLECTED WORKS
OF
C. G. JUNG
VOLUME 9, PART II
EDITORS
†
SIR HERBERT READ
MICHAEL FORDHAM, M.D., M.R.C.P.
GERHARD ADLER, PH.D.
WILLIAM MCGUIRE, executive editor
The Mithraic god Aion
Roman, 2nd–3rd century
AION
RESEARCHES INTO THE
PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE SELF
C. G. JUNG
SECOND EDITION
TRANSLATED BY R. F. C. HULL
B O L L I N G E N S E R I E S X X
COPYRIGHT © 1959 BY BOLLINGEN FOUNDATION INC., NEW YORK, N.Y.
PUBLISHED BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, PRINCETON, N.J.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Second hardcover edition, with corrections and minor revisions, 1968
Fifth hardcover printing, with additional corrections, 1978
First Princeton / Bollingen Paperback printing, 1979
This book is a paperback reprint of Volume 9, part ii, of the
Collected Works of C. G. Jung. All the volumes comprising
the Collected Works constitute number XX in Bollingen
Series, under the editorship of Herbert Read (d. 1968),
Michael Fordham, and Gerhard Adler; executive editor,
William McGuire.
Translated from the first part of Aion: Untersuchungen zur
Symbolgeschichte (Psychologische Abhandlungen, VIII),
published by Rascher Verlag, Zurich, 1951.
ISBN 0-691-01826-X (paperback edition)
ISBN 0-691-09775-5 (hardcover edition)
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 75-156
EDITORIAL NOTE
Volume 9 of the Collected Works is devoted to studies of the specific
archetypes of the collective unconscious. Part I, entitled The Archetypes and
the Collective Unconscious, is composed of shorter essays; Part II, Aion, is a
long monograph on the archetype of the self. The author has agreed to a
modification of the sub-title of Aion, which in the Swiss edition appeared in
two forms, “Researches into the History of Symbols” and “Contributions to
the Symbolism of the Self.” The first five chapters were previously
published, with small differences, in Psyche and Symbol: A Selection from
the Writings of C. G. Jung, edited by Violet S. de Laszlo (Anchor Books,
Garden City, New York, 1958).
EDITORIAL NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION
For this edition corrections have been made in the text and footnotes and
the bibliographical references have been brought up to date in relation to the
Collected Works. The translation has been corrected in light of further
experience of translating Jung’s works.
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following persons, whose
translations have been consulted during the preparation of the present work:
Mr. William H. Kennedy, for extensive use of his translation of portions of
chapters 2 and 3, issued as “Shadow, Animus, and Anima” by the Analytical
Psychology Club of New York, 1950; Dr. Hildegarde Nagel, for reference to
her translation of the original Eranos-Jahrbuch version (1949) of
“Concerning the Self,” in Spring, 1951, which original version the author
later expanded into Aion, chapters 4 and 5; and Miss Barbara Hannah and Dr.
Marie-Louise von Franz, for helpful advice with the remaining chapters.
Especial thanks are due to Mr. A. S. B. Glover, who (unless otherwise noted)
translated the Latin and Greek texts throughout. References to published
sources are given for the sake of completeness.
VOLUME 9, PART II
AION: RESEARCHES INTO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE
SELF
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITORIAL NOTES
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
LIST OF PLATES
FOREWORD
I. The Ego
II. The Shadow
III. The Syzygy: Anima and Animus
IV. The Self
V. Christ, a Symbol of the Self
VI. The Sign of the Fishes
VII. The Prophecies of Nostradamus
VIII. The Historical Significance of the Fish
IX. The Ambivalence of the Fish Symbol
X. The Fish in Alchemy
1. The Medusa
2. The Fish
3. The Fish Symbol of the Cathars
XI. The Alchemical Interpretation of the Fish
XII. Background to the Psychology of Christian Alchemical Symbolism
XIII. Gnostic Symbols of the Self
XIV. The Structure and Dynamics of the Self
XV. Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX