Mysterium Coniunctionis (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.14) [Paperback]

C. G. Jung (Author), Gerhard Adler (Translator), R. F.C. Hull (Translator)

Book Description

Series: Collected Works of C.G. Jung | Publication Date: August 1, 1977

Jung's last major work, completed in his 81st year, on the synthesis of the opposites in alchemy and psychology.

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Truly original and far-ranging in its implications . . . Mysterium Coniunctionis is a splendid capstone to the life work of a master spirit. -- Journal of Analytical Psychology

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Text: English, German (translation)

Product Details

• Paperback: 430 pages
• Publisher: Princeton University Press; 2 edition (August 1, 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0691018162
• ISBN-13: 978-0775905564
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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More About the Author

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology (also known as Jungian psychology). Jung's radical approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in counter-cultural movements across the globe. Jung is considered as the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and to explore it in depth. His many major works include "Analytic Psychology: Its Theory and Practice," "Man and His Symbols," "Memories, Dreams, Reflections," "The Collected Works of Carl G. Jung," and "The Red Book."

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46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jungs quintessential work on Alchemy., February 11, 2001

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This review is from: Mysterium Coniunctionis (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.14) (Paperback)

"The light that gradually dawns on him consists in his understanding that his fantasy is a real psychic process which is happening to him personally." (Jung p. 528-529) This sentence from the book sums-up its content.

In this work Jung demonstrates that Alchemy was a precursor to modern Western psychological insight. Jung draws a "process map" of the Alchemy in this volume, in which he laboriously (but not tediously) shows that the steps the alchemists took to bring about the transformation of matter. Jung suggests that this process is a metaphoric representation of a process some humans travel to reach a level of consciousness that includes and unites the unseen (transcendent) reality with the visible experience.

It can be read as an interesting intellectual insight into earlier Western thought, or it can be used by an individual as a guide through the process of psychological transformation. This work is essential to anyone on the path of transformation and who looks to Jung as a guide on that path. It is not for a casual reader of Jung.

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jung's last big book, and his richest...., June 1, 2000

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Craig Chalquist, PhD, author of TERRAPSYCHOLO... (Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mysterium Coniunctionis (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.14) (Paperback)

Jung rises to unscaled heights in this scholarly and alchemically informed book that in its ultimate reach points to the One World of Gerhard Dorn and an ultimate synthesis of soul, soma, and spirit with the pleromatic Ground of everything. Along with AION and ANSWER TO JOB this may be Jung's deepest book. Highly technical. (See also Edinger's THE MYSTERIUM LECTURES.)

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Consummate Jung, October 11, 2007

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This review is from: Mysterium Coniunctionis (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.14) (Paperback)

This is no easy sledding, but for those familiar with Jung's model of the psyche, this is the congealed presentation of the phenomenon of the union of opposites within the Archetypal Self. I avoided this one due to its mystical and forbidding title, but it is the consummate work of Jung, taking ten of the last years of his life to write. Once groping through the dense forest of obscure alchemical references, the reader will be delighted to discover a clearing in the woods when Jung explains the application of alchemical references to the phenomenon of individuation.