xi, 333 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
SERIES
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Bollingen series, 20.
GENERAL NOTES
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Fifth printing, with corrections.;"Translated from the first part of Aion: Untersuchungen zur Symbolgeschichte."
CONTENTS NOTE
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The ego --;The shadow --;The syzygy: anima and animus --;The self --;Christ, a symbol of the self --;The sign of the fishes --;The prophecies of Nostradamus --;The historical significance of the fish --;The ambivalence of the fish symbol --;The fish in alchemy --;The alchemical interpretation of the fish --;Background to the psychology of Christian alchemical symbolism --;Gnostic symbols of the self --;The structure and dynamics of the self --;Conclusion.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Aion, originally published in German in 1951, is one of the major works of Jung's later years. The central theme of the volume is the symbolic representation of the psychic totality through the concept of the Self, whose traditional historical equivalent is the figure of Christ. Jung demonstrates his thesis by an investigation of the Allegoria Christi, especially the fish symbol, but also of Gnostic and alchemical symbolism, which he treats as phenomena of cultural assimilation. The first four chapters, on the ego, the shadow, and the anima and animus, provide a valuable summation of these key concepts in Jung's system of psychology.--Amazon.com.