On psychological and visionary art : notes from C. G. Jung's lecture on Gérard de Nerval's "Aurélia"
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On psychological and visionary art : notes from C. G. Jung's lecture on Gérard de Nerval's "Aurélia"
（Philemon series）
Princeton University Press, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Aurélia "was originally published in Selected Writings by Gérard de Nerval, translated and with an introduction by Richard Sieburth (Penguin Classics, copyright c1999 by Richard Sieburth) "--T.p. verso
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In 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zurich on the French Romantic poet Gerard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval's visionary memoir, Aurelia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent attempt to emerge from madness. Published here for the first time, Jung's lecture is both a cautionary psychological tale and a validation of Nerval's visionary experience as a genuine encounter. Nerval explored the irrational with lucidity and exquisite craft. He privileged the subjective imagination as a way of fathoming the divine to reconnect with what the Romantics called the life principle. During the years of his greatest creativity, he suffered from madness and was institutionalized eight times. Contrasting an orthodox psychoanalytic interpretation with his own synthetic approach to the unconscious, Jung explains why Nerval was unable to make use of his visionary experiences in his own life. At the same time, Jung emphasizes the validity of Nerval's visions, differentiating the psychology of a work of art from the psychology of the artist.
The lecture suggests how Jung's own experiments with active imagination influenced his reading of Nerval's Aurelia as a parallel text to his own Red Book. With Craig Stephenson's authoritative introduction, Richard Sieburth's award-winning translation of Aurelia, and Alfred Kubin's haunting illustrations to the text, and featuring Jung's reading marginalia, preliminary notes, and revisions to a 1942 lecture, On Psychological and Visionary Art documents the stages of Jung's creative process as he responds to an essential Romantic text.
Table of Contents
- Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xi Permissions xiii One Introduction 1 Craig E. Stephenson Two Jung's Abstract on Nerval from The Symbolic Life 49 (Collected Works, Volume 18) Three Jung's Lecture on Gerard de Nerval at the Psychology Club, 1945 51 Four Minutes of the Discussion Following the 1945 Lecture 79 Five Jung's Notes to the 1942 Lecture 89 Six Jung's First Notes on Nerval's Aurelia, 1942 107 Seven Nerval's Aurelia (1855) 119 Translated by Richard Sieburth (1999)
- illustrations by Alfred Kubin (1910) References 197 Index 201
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