The origins and history of consciousness
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The origins and history of consciousness
（Bollingen series, 42）
Princeton University Press, 1954
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Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins
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Translation of: Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins
Originally published: Zürich : Rascher, 1949
Bibliography: p. [445]-460
Includes index
Third hardcover printing, with additional bibliographical revision, 1969
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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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