The Origins and History of Consciousness / / Erich Neumann.

• VerfasserIn: Neumann, Erich,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hull, R. F.C.; Jung, C. G.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology : 57 ; 127
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (552 p.) :; 31 halftones.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE -- NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: THE MYTHOLOGICAL STAGES IN THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- A: THE CREATION MYTH -- B: THE HERO MYTH -- C: THE TRANSFORMATION MYTH -- PART II: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY -- A: THE ORIGINAL UNITY -- B: THE SEPARATION OF THE SYSTEMS -- C: THE BALANCE AND CRISIS OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- D: CENTROVERSION AND THE STAGES OF LIFE -- APPENDICES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX