The origins and history of consciousness

Author(s)

• Neumann, Erich

Bibliographic Information

The origins and history of consciousness

Erich Neumann ; with a foreword by C.G. Jung ; translated from the German by R.F.C. Hull

（Bollingen series, 42）

Princeton University Press, 1970

• : pbk

Other Title

Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins

Note

Translation of: Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins

Originally published: Zürich : Rascher, 1949

Bibliography: p. [445]-460

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The first of Erich Neumann's works to be translated into English, this eloquent book draws on a full range of world mythology to show that individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as has human consciousness as a whole. Neumann, one of Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right, shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, or 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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Details

• NCID: BA01544664
• ISBN:
  • 0691098077
  • 0691017611
• LCCN: 53012527
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Princeton, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: xxiv, 493 p., [27] p. of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BF311
  • DC : 126
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Consciousness
  • LCSH : Personality
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00300416