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The Origins And History Of Consciousness

By Erich , Neumann

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2015
ISBN
1136302085, 9781136302084
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2610326 bytes)
Pages
574\0
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2018-04-20 05:22:31

Description

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 Erich Neumann was one of C G Jungs most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right In this influential book Neumann shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros the tail-eating serpent 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 Throughout the sequence the Hero is the evolving ego consciousness

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