![]() ![]() ![]() Featuring a foreword by Jung, this Princeton Classics edition introduces a new generation of readers to this eloquent and enduring work. Throughout the sequence, the Hero is the evolving ego consciousness. The Origins and History of Consciousness (German: Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins) is a 1949 book by the psychologist and philosopher Erich Neumann, in which the author attempts to 'outline the archetypal stages in the development of consciousness'. ![]() ![]() The intermediate stages are projected in the universal myths of the World Creation, Great Mother, Separation of the World Parents, Birth of the Hero, Slaying of the Dragon, Rescue of the Captive, and Transformation and Deification of the Hero. In this influential book, Neumann shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, the tail-eating serpent. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. Neumann's work is the best shot we mortals will get to understanding the genius of Carl Jung. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Neumann manages to organize and systemise the rather chaotic teachings of Carl Jung, who was a genius, and very difficult to comprehend for his mind did not work in the manner of an ordinary man. ![]()
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