Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey - Hardcover

Nichols, Sallie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877284806 ISBN 13: 9780877284802

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser, 1980

This highly innovative work presents a detailed and piercing interpretation of the Tarot in terms of Jungian psychology. Through analogy with the humanities, mythology and the graphic arts, Nichols helps each reader to a uniquely personal experience of the intriguing Tarot images. Viewing the Major Arcana as a map outlining the journey toward self realization, the author offers many techniques for using the cards to gain practical insights along the way. 'Sallie Nichols, in her profound investigation of Tarot, and her illuminated exegesis of its pattern as an authentic attempt at enlargement of the possibilities of human perceptions has...performed an immense service for analytical psychology. Her book enriches and helps us to understand the awesome responsibilities laid upon us by consciousness..On top of it all, she has done this not in an arid academic fashion, but as an act of knowing derived from her own experience of Tarot and its strangely translucent lights. As a result

• Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0877284806
• ISBN 13: 9780877284802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 393
• Illustrator: 87 Figures Some In Color