The Origins and History of Consciousness. with a Foreword by C. G. Jung. Translated from the German by R. F. C. Hull. Bollingen Series XLII

Neumann, Erich & R. F. C. Hull & C. G. Jung

ISBN 10: 0691098077 / ISBN 13: 9780691098074

Published by Pantheon, NY, 1954

About this Item

Publisher's gilt-titled cloth first edition. PO name to ffep. Bookplate to front pastedown, some light toning to edges of boards. Faint toning to pages. The unclipped DJ in mylar is chipped with losses to spine ends and has wear to edges and points. ; 7.75 X 0 X 10 inches; 493 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Origins and History of Consciousness. with a Foreword by C. G. Jung. Translated from the German by R. F. C. Hull. Bollingen Series XLII
• Publisher: Pantheon, NY
• Publication Date: 1954
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691098077
• ISBN 13: 9780691098074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-

About this title

Synopsis

The first of Erich Neumann's works to be translated into English, this eloquent book draws on a full range of world mythology to show that individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as has human consciousness as a whole. Neumann, one of 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, or tail-eating serpent. The intermediate stages are projected in the universal myths of the World Creation, Great Mother, Separation of the World Parents, Birth of the Hero, Slaying of the Dragon, Rescue of the Captive, and Transformation and Deification of the Hero. Throughout the sequence the Hero is the evolving ego consciousness.

About the Author

Erich Neumann, born in Berlin in 1905, lived in Tel Aviv from 1934 until his death in 1960. Among his other works in Princeton's Bollingen series are Fear of the Feminine, Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine, The Great Mother, and The Acrchtypal World of Henry Moore.