Psychology and Alchemy

Jung did not believe alchemists were failed chemists. He believed they were doing psychology before psychology existed.

Psychology and Alchemy is the central text of Jung's engagement with the alchemical tradition — a sustained argument that the symbols, operations, and imagery of alchemy are projections of the unconscious mind working toward individuation. The alchemist's laboratory was an inner landscape. The Great Work was the integration of the self.

Inside:

• Jung's analysis of a series of dreams interpreted through alchemical symbolism
• The relationship between alchemical imagery and the archetypes of the collective unconscious
• The philosophical and psychological dimensions of the opus alchymicum
• Extensive illustration with alchemical woodcuts and emblems
• The foundation for all subsequent Jungian engagement with esotericism

Dense, illustrated, and transformative. Essential for anyone working at the intersection of depth psychology and the Western esoteric tradition.