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The origins and history of consciousness

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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. Jung's 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.
Featuring a foreword by Jung, this Princeton Classics edition introduces a new generation of readers to this eloquent and enduring work.

Wikipedia discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_and_History_of_Consciousness

Jordan B. Peterson: Erich Neumann is the most well-regarded student, analyst & distiller of Carl Jung's work.

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English

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Edition Notes

Originally published in German as 'Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins'. Zurich : Rascher Verlag, 1949.

Published in
Princeton
Series
Bollingen series -- 42

Classifications

Library of Congress
BF311 .N488 1970, BF311.N488 1970

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22346613M
Internet Archive
originshistoryo00neum
ISBN 10
0691098077
LCCN
74158411
OCLC/WorldCat
916421
Library Thing
202443
Goodreads
5071154

First Sentence

"THE MYTHOLOGICAL STAGES in the evolution of consciousness begin with the stage when the ego is contained in the unconscious, and lead up to a situation in which the ego not only becomes aware of its own position and defends it heroically, but also becomes capable of broadening and relativizing its experiences through the changes effected by its own activity."

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