Winner of the 2021 American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Annual
Book Prize for Best Theoretical Book in Psychoanalysis!
Stanton Marlan brings together writings which span the course of his
career, examining Jungian psychology and the alchemical imagination as
an opening to the mysteries of psyche and soul.
Several chapters describe a telos that aims at the mysterious goal of
the Philosophers' Stone, a move replete with classical and postmodern
ideas catalysed by prompts from the unconscious: dreams, images,
fantasies, and paradoxical conundrums. Psyche and matter are seen with
regards to soul, light and darkness in terms of illumination, and order
and chaos as linked in the image of chaosmos. Marlan explores the
richness of the alchemical ideas of Carl Jung, James Hillman, and others
and their value for a revisioning of psychology. In doing so, this
volume challenges any tendency to literalism and essentialism, and
contributes to an integration between Jung's classical vision of a
psychology of alchemy and Hillman's Alchemical Psychology.
C.G. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination will be a valuable resource for
academics, scholars, and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies,
Jungian analysis, and psychotherapy. It will also be of great interest
to Jungian psychologists and Jungian analysts in practice and in
training.
