- Paperback: 430 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press; 2d Ed edition (1 Aug 1977)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0691018162
- ISBN-13: 978-0775905564
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.4 x 3.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 488,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Truly original and far-ranging in its implications . . . Mysterium Coniunctionis is a splendid capstone to the life work of a master spirit. -- "Journal of Analytical Psychology
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Jung's last major work, completed in his 81st year, on the synthesis of the opposites in alchemy and psychology.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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This is one of the final works of Jung, and is absolutely monstrous in its size and depth. Unless your familiar with most of his later writings, particularly the ones relating to Alchemy, then I wouldnt even begin to consider reading this book. Those who have read a few of his works, and know his general theory... will still find this hard going, but extremely rewarding. This should be one of the last books you read by Jung, and by the end of that journey you will be grateful that you began it. Jung is not only for those specifying in psychology. The legacy of this man, to psychology/philosophy/spiritualism & life is awesome & almost unrivaled.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Jung invented the Age of Aquarius (or coined the phrase) and is the spiritual father of the yards of bookshelves devoted to wicca, fairies, tarot, astrology etc (just as Freud is the spiritual father of yards of books on orgasms).
This book is not for the fainthearted and needs to be read on the basis that most of it is not likely to make sense to your conscious self. Read it and you may set off a timebomb in your psyche. Read the first chapter and then sleep on it. Did you dream? What did you feel after your dream? Then decide whether to continue.
This book is dynamite, the road to answer to the ultimate question. It is not for everyone by any means, but if the idea of living your life as though you are burning in your own fire appeals to you, then beg, borrow or steal a copy.
This book is not for the fainthearted and needs to be read on the basis that most of it is not likely to make sense to your conscious self. Read it and you may set off a timebomb in your psyche. Read the first chapter and then sleep on it. Did you dream? What did you feel after your dream? Then decide whether to continue.
This book is dynamite, the road to answer to the ultimate question. It is not for everyone by any means, but if the idea of living your life as though you are burning in your own fire appeals to you, then beg, borrow or steal a copy.
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Jungs quintessential work on Alchemy.
11 Feb 2001
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"The light that gradually dawns on him consists in his understanding that his fantasy is a real psychic process which is happening to him personally." (Jung p. 528-529) This sentence from the book sums-up its content.
In this work Jung demonstrates that Alchemy was a precursor to modern Western psychological insight. Jung draws a "process map" of the Alchemy in this volume, in which he laboriously (but not tediously) shows that the steps the alchemists took to bring about the transformation of matter. Jung suggests that this process is a metaphoric representation of a process some humans travel to reach a level of consciousness that includes and unites the unseen (transcendent) reality with the visible experience.
It can be read as an interesting intellectual insight into earlier Western thought, or it can be used by an individual as a guide through the process of psychological transformation. This work is essential to anyone on the path of transformation and who looks to Jung as a guide on that path. It is not for a casual reader of Jung.
22 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Jung's last big book, and his richest....
1 Jun 2000
Format:Paperback
Jung rises to unscaled heights in this scholarly and alchemically informed book that in its ultimate reach points to the One World of Gerhard Dorn and an ultimate synthesis of soul, soma, and spirit with the pleromatic Ground of everything. Along with AION and ANSWER TO JOB this may be Jung's deepest book. Highly technical. (See also Edinger's THE MYSTERIUM LECTURES.)
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
The Consummate Jung
11 Oct 2007
Format:Paperback
This is no easy sledding, but for those familiar with Jung's model of the psyche, this is the congealed presentation of the phenomenon of the union of opposites within the Archetypal Self. I avoided this one due to its mystical and forbidding title, but it is the consummate work of Jung, taking ten of the last years of his life to write. Once groping through the dense forest of obscure alchemical references, the reader will be delighted to discover a clearing in the woods when Jung explains the application of alchemical references to the phenomenon of individuation.
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