The "Red book": Jung's choice to produce his alchemical work as a book
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https://doi.org/10.21901/2448-3060/self-2017.vol02.0006Keywords:
symbol, language, individuation, imagery.Abstract
One way of understanding the "Red book" is to relate it to the process of the alchemical opus or opus magna, the work of alchemists to obtain the philosopher's stone. Carl Gustav Jung uses this process in the development of the "Red book", a fact that he had only understood a posteriori. Recalling that his first contact with alchemical texts occurred in 1910, and that the activities related to the "Red book" gained strength between 1913 and 1930, we can understand that this publication and alchemy have a causal relationship. The perception that the psyche follows the same steps of the alchemical symbols, during the process of individuation, has influenced analytical psychology in a very determinant manner. In the stages of development of the alchemical work, a sequence of symbols that compose the process are revealed. The present paper intends to demonstrate that the "Red book" follows alchemical conduct and that it is in this book that Jung finds his personal path towards individuation.Downloads
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