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The origins and history of consciousness

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: (Bollingen Foundation Series: 42)Princeton, NJ Princeton Univ. Press Edition: 1st paper ed.; 2nd printing, 1971Description: xxiv, 493, [2]p; plates; bibliog.; indexContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-691-0161-1
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Foreword - C.G. Jung. Part 1 - The mythological stages in the evolution of consciousness. A The creation myth. B The hero myth. C The transformation myth. Part 2 - The psychological stages in the development of personality. A The original unity. B The separation of the systems. C The balance and crisis of consciousness. D Centroversion and the stages of life. Appendices. 1 The group and the great individual. 2 Mass man and the phenomena of recollectivization
Abstract: 'The following attempt to outline the archetypal stages in the development of cosciousness is based on modern depth psychology. It is an application of the analyical psychology of C.G. Jung, even where we endeavor to amplify this psychology, and even though we may speculatively overstep its boundaries. Unilke other possible and necessary methods of inquiry which consider the development of consciousness in relation to external environmental factors, our inquiry is more concerned with the internal, psychic, and archetypal factors which determine the course of that development....' --Introduction
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Foreword by C.G. Jung.. Transl. from the German by R.F.C. Hull.. Orig. pub. in 1949 as Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins by Rascher Verlag, Zurich.

Foreword - C.G. Jung. Part 1 - The mythological stages in the evolution of consciousness. A The creation myth. B The hero myth. C The transformation myth. Part 2 - The psychological stages in the development of personality. A The original unity. B The separation of the systems. C The balance and crisis of consciousness. D Centroversion and the stages of life. Appendices. 1 The group and the great individual. 2 Mass man and the phenomena of recollectivization

'The following attempt to outline the archetypal stages in the development of cosciousness is based on modern depth psychology. It is an application of the analyical psychology of C.G. Jung, even where we endeavor to amplify this psychology, and even though we may speculatively overstep its boundaries. Unilke other possible and necessary methods of inquiry which consider the development of consciousness in relation to external environmental factors, our inquiry is more concerned with the internal, psychic, and archetypal factors which determine the course of that development....' --Introduction

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