The Origins and History of Consciousness - Softcover

Neumann, Erich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0946439729 ISBN 13: 9780946439720

Publisher: Routledge, 1986

Synopsis

The Origins and History of Consciousness is an important and wide-ranging interpretation of the relations between psychology and mythology. Erich Neumann undertakes to show that the individual consciousness passes through the same archetypal stages of development that marked the history of human consciousness as a whole. He draws upon the full range of world myth in the illustration of his thesis, and his account makes unexpectedly fresh and lively reading in a field not always notable for these qualities. Neumann ends the work with a trenchant commentary on contemporary society.

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About the Author

Erich Neumann, one of C.G. Jung's pupils, was among the most creative in building on Jung's work and carrying it forward in new explorations and syntheses. Before he met Jung he was trained in philosophy and medicine. He was also a poet and novelist. A native of Germany, he completed his medicinal studies in Berlin but, owing to the activities of the Nazis, left Germany in 1934 and, after studying with Jung in Zurich, emigrated to Tel Aviv. His range of understanding is apparent in his writings of which the major works have been translated into English. These include: 'The Great Mother; Art and the Creative Unconscious; Depth Psychology and a New Ethic' and 'The Child: Structure and Dynamics of the Nascent Personality'.

Language Notes

Text: English, German (translation)

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0946439729
• ISBN 13: 9780946439720
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 518