The Roots of Jewish Consciousness, Volume One: Revelation and
Apocalypse is the first volume, fully annotated, of a major, previously
unpublished, two-part work by Erich Neumann (1905-1960). It was written
between 1934 and 1940, after Neumann, then a young philosopher and
physician and freshly trained as a disciple of Jung, fled Berlin to
settle in Tel Aviv. He finished the second volume of this work at the
end of World War Two. Although he never published either volume, he kept
them the rest of his life.
The Roots of Jewish Consciousness, Volume Two: Hasidism is the
second volume, fullyannotated, of a major, previously unpublished,
two-part work by Erich Neumann (1905-1960). It was written between 1940
and 1945, after Neumann, then a young philosopher and physician and
freshly trained as a disciple of Jung, fled Berlin to settle in Tel
Aviv. He finished this work at the end of World War Two. Although he
never published it, he kept it the rest of his life.
These volumes anticipate Neumann's later works, including Depth
Psychology and a New Ethic, The Origins and History of Consciousness,
and The Great Mother. His signature contribution to analytical
psychology, the concept of the ego-Self axis, arises indirectly in
Volume One, folded into Neumann's theme of the tension between earth and
YHWH. In Volume Two, Hasidism, his concept of the ego-Self axis is
developed in clearly psychological terms. Four previously unpublished
essays, appended to Volume Two, illustrate Neumann's developmental
psychology, including his theme of primary and secondary
personalisation. This unique work will appeal to Jungian analysts and
psychotherapists in training and in practice, historians of psychology,
Jewish scholars, biblical historians, teachers of comparative religion,
as well as academics and students.
