The Origins and History of Consciousness

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Princeton University Press, 1954 - 493 pagine
The first of Erich Neumann's works to be translated into English, this eloquent book draws on a full range of world mythology to explain how the individual consciousness passes through 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, the Great Mother, the Separation of the World Parents, the Birth of the Hero, the Slaying of the Dragon, the Rescue of the Captive, and the Transformation and Deification of the Hero. Throughout the sequence the Hero is the evolving ego consciousness.
 

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THE MYTHOLOGICAL STAGES
1
The Slaying of the Father
170
The Captive and the Treasure
193
Transformation or Osiris
220
Centroversion and Ego Formation
261
THE SEPARATION OF THE SYSTEMS
313
The Fragmentation of Archetypes
320
Secondary Personalization
335
The Formation of Authorities within the Personality
349
The Synthetic Function of the Ego
356
Culture
363
Culture in Crisis
381
CENTROVERSION AND THE STAGES OF LIFE
395
The Group and the Great Individual
421
Mass Man and the Phenomena of Recollectivization
436
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The Transformation of PleasurePain Components
342

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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.

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