Alchemical Active Imagination

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In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz examines a text by the sixteenth-century alchemist and physician Gerhard Dorn in order to show the relationship of alchemy to the concepts and techniques of analytical psychology.

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Author: Marie-Louise von Franz
No. Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780877735892

Although alchemy is popularly regarded as the science that sought to transmute base physical matter, many of the medieval alchemists were more interested in developing a discipline that would lead to the psychological and spiritual transformation of the individual.  C. G. Jung discovered in his study of alchemical texts a symbolic and imaginal language that expressed many of his own insights into psychological processes.

In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz examines a text by the sixteenth-century alchemist and physician Gerhard Dorn in order to show the relationship of alchemy to the concepts and techniques of analytical psychology.  In particular, she shows that the alchemists practiced a kind of meditation similar to Jung’s technique of active imagination, which enables one to dialogue with the unconscious archetypal elements in the psyche.  Originally delivered as a series of lectures at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, the book opens therapeutic insights into the relations among spirit, soul, and body in the practice of active imagination.