The Collected Works of CG Jung: Volume 5: Symbols of Transformation

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by  C. G. Jung

BOLLINGEN SERIES XX
THE COLLECTED WORKS
OF
C. G. JUNG
VOLUME 5
EDITORS
† SIR HERBERT READ
MICHAEL FORDHAM, M.D., M.R.C.P.
GERHARD ADLER, PH.D.
WILLIAM MCGUIRE, executive editor
The Ostian head of Mithras Roman
SYMBOLS
OF
TRANSFORMATION
AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRELUDE TO A CASE OF
SCHIZOPHRENIA
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
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Second edition, with corrections, 1967
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Third printing, 1976
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Translated from Symbole der Wandlung (4th edition,
rewritten, of Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido), published
by Rascher Verlag, Zurich, 1952.
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EDITORIAL NOTE
As the author’s Foreword indicates, the volume from which the present translation has been made is
an extensive revision, published in 1952, of Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, published in 1912.*
The reasons for this revision and its extent are explained by Dr. Jung and need no further comment
here.
The present translation differs in certain respects from the revised Swiss
edition. First of all, the number of illustrations has been reduced. In the Swiss
edition, these had been inserted to amplify the text rather than to illustrate. It
seemed to the Editors that the illustrations sometimes had the disadvantage of
interrupting the text unduly, and after careful consideration it was decided
that only those having a direct relevance to the text should be included.
Among these, some new photographs and substitutions have been used.
Secondly, an appendix containing the complete Miller fantasies has been
added. Since these were available only in a French text published in 1906 in
the Archives de psychologie, a translation by Philip Mairet has been provided.
The textual quotations are also from this translation. Other differences from
the Swiss edition result from bringing the volume into conformity with the
general plan for the Collected Works. A bibliography has been added, and
accordingly the references in the footnotes have been somewhat shortened.
In respect to the quotations from various languages, special mention must
be made of the work of Dr. A. Wasserstein and Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz
in checking and translating some of the Latin and Greek texts. The
philological material has been checked over by Dr. Leopold Stein.
EDITORIAL NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION
For this edition, appearing ten years after the first, bibliographical citations and entries have been
revised in the light of subsequent publications in the Collected Works and in the Standard Edition of
Freud’s works, some translations have been substituted in quotations, and other essential corrections
have been made, but there have been no changes of substance in the text.
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
During the preparation of this volume, the text of the original English translation by Beatrice M.
Hinkle, first published in America in 1916 under the title Psychology of the Unconscious, was freely
consulted. Certain of the quotations of poetry there rendered by Louis Untermeyer have been taken
over into the present edition, sometimes with slight modifications. For some of the quotations from
Faust, I am indebted to Philip Wayne, both for extracts from his published version of Part 1 and for
passages from Part 2 specially translated for this volume. Quotations from Latin and Greek sources are
taken when possible from existing translations, but mostly they are of a composite nature, resulting
from comparison of the existing translations with the original texts and with the German versions used
by the author, who in some cases translated direct from the originals. For the purpose of comparison,
reference is sometimes made, in square brackets, to an existing translation although it has not been
quoted.
For the 1974 printing, the Author’s Note to the first American/English edition has been added on p.
xxx.
NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publishers and others for the reproduction of
illustrations or for permission to quote:
Allen and Unwin, London, for a passage from Freud’s The Interpretation
of Dreams; O. W. Barth, Munich: a plate from Wachlmayr, Das
Christgeburtsbild der frühen Sakralkunst; Professor W. Norman Brown:
passages from his translation of the Rig-Veda; Bruckmann Verlag, Munich:
an illustration from J. J. Bernoulli, Die erhaltenen Darstellungen Alexanders
des Grossen; Clarendon Press, Oxford: a passage from John Tod-hunter’s
translation of Heine and an illustration from the catalogue of the Palazzo dei
Conservatori, Rome, edited by H. S. Jones for the British School at Rome;
Diederichs Verlag, Düsseldorf: a plate from Wirth, Der Aufgang der
Menschheit; Dodd, Mead and Co., New York: for the use of material
originally appearing in Beatrice Hinkle’s translation of Jung’s Psychology of
the Unconscious; Folkwang Verlag, Hagen i. W.: a plate from Fuhrmann,
Reich der Inka; Friedrichsen Verlag, Hamburg: figures from Danzel,
Symbole, Dämonen, und heilige Türme; Harcourt, Brace and Co.: passages
from Untermeyer’s translation of Heine and Cornford’s translation of Plato’s
Timaeus; Harvard University Press: passages from the Loeb Classical Library
editions of Ovid, Seneca, Virgil, and the Homeric Hymns; William
Heinemann, London: passages from the Thomas and Guillemard translation
of Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac; Hoepli, Milan: a plate from Prampolini,
La Mitologia nella vita dei popoli; The Hogarth Press; quotations from the
Standard Edition of the Works of Sigmund Freud and the Collected Papers of
Sigmund Freud; Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston: passages from Longfellow’s
Hiawatha; H. Keller Verlag, Berlin: a plate from Deubner, Attische Feste;
Librairie Larousse, Paris: two plates from Guirand, Mythologie générale;
Macmillan and Co., New York: a quotation from Baldwin, Thoughts and
Things, and translations from Nietzsche’s works, and figs. 28 and 33, from
The Mythology of All Races, II; The Medici Society, London, for an
illustration from Budge’s Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, I; Methuen
and Co., London: figs. 5, 24, and 27 and Pl. XLIb, from Budge, Gods of the
Egyptians; Oxford University Press, New York: passages from Louis
MacNeice’s translation of Faust; Penguin Books: passages from Rieu’s
translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey, de Selincourt’s translation of
Herodotus, Wayne’s translation of Faust, and Hamilton’s translation of Plato;
Princeton University Press: passages from E. A. Speiser’s translations in
Ancient Near Eastern Texts; Reimer Verlag, Berlin: a plate from LeCoq, Die
Buddhistische Spätantike in Mittelasien; Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf: a plate
from Clemen, Die romanische Wandmalerei des Rheinlands; Seeman Verlag,
Cologne: a plate from Cohn, Buddha in der Kunst des Ostens; Sheed and
Ward, New York: passages from F. J. Sheed’s translation of the Confessions
of St. Augustine; Stubenrauch Verlag, Berlin: a plate from Spiess, Marksteine
der Volkskunst; Editions Tel, Paris: a photograph of Strasbourg Cathedral, by
Marc Foucault; Mr. Philip Wayne: passages from his unpublished translation
of Faust, Part II.
VOLUME 5
SYMBOLS OF TRANSFORMATION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITORIAL NOTE
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
LIST OF PLATES
LIST OF TEXT FIGURES
FOREWORD TO THE FOURTH (SWISS) EDITION
FOREWORD TO THE THIRD (GERMAN) EDITION
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND (GERMAN) EDITION
AUTHOR’S NOTE TO THE FIRST AMERICAN/ENGLISH EDITION
PART ONE
I. Introduction
II. Two Kinds of Thinking
III. The Miller Fantasies: Anamnesis
IV. The Hymn of Creation
V. The Song of the Moth
PART TWO
I. Introduction
II. The Concept of Libido
III. The Transformation of Libido
IV. The Origin of the Hero
V. Symbols of the Mother and of Rebirth
VI. The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother
VII. The Dual Mother