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The Origins and History of Consciousness
Series: Bollingen Recollections
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A landmark account of the evolution of consciousness by one of the twentieth century's leading Jungian psychologists This book draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich...
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A landmark account of the evolution of consciousness by one of the twentieth century's leading Jungian psychologists
This book draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann, one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right, shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, the tail-eating serpent.
The intermediate stages are projected in the universal myths of the World Creation, the Great Mother, the Separation of the World Parents, the Birth of the Hero, the Slaying of the Dragon, the Rescue of the Captive, and the Transformation and Deification of the Hero. Neumann traces how, throughout this sequence, the Hero is the evolving ego consciousness.
With a foreword by Jung, The Origins and History of Consciousness is an eloquent and enduring meditation on myth and the human psyche.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780691279084
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 January 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Illustration: 31 b/w illus.
Contributors:
- Translated by R. F.C. Hull
- Translated by R. F. C. Hull
- Foreword by C. G. Jung
- Foreword by C. G. Jung
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 631g
Pages: 552
About the Author
Erich Neumann (19051960), a psychologist and philosopher, was born in Berlin and lived in Tel Aviv from 1934 until his death. His books include Amor and Psyche, The Fear of the Feminine, and The Great Mother (all Princeton). C. G. Jung (18751961) was one of the most important psychologists of the twentieth century and the founder of analytical psychology.
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