The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (2 BOOKS)

Carl Gustav Jung

The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (608 pages)
The most famous book of Carl Gustav Jung «The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious» consists of his articles being published through 1933–1955 in which the author develops the most important elements of his analytic theory. It is an account of the collective level of an unconscious part of our psychology and the archetypes as some innate universal structures which are the content of this collective unconscious. Image-bearing parallelism which is appropriate of different mythologies, religions, arts, fairy-tales, philosophical, alchemical and scientific studies as well as our dreams, fantasies and delusions helps the author to identify and describe these archetypes as well as to investigate their influence upon personality becoming. The book touches on virtually all aspects of human activity, and so it will be interesting not only for psychologists and psychotherapists but also for philosophers, religion historians, anthropologists, art critics as well as all those who seek to understand the basis of our existence that is often hidden from our view.

Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (432 pages)
The book Aion by Carl Gustav Jung (1865–1961) is among the number of major late works by the author and develops the range of problems that were worked out in his collection of essays Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Based upon the wide explication of christian, gnostic and alchemic symbolics, the author explains the archetype of psychical integrity, the self, historically connecting it with the figure of Christ that, according to his opinion, is the symbol of the all-encompassing integrity during the christian Eon that is synchronic to the Great month of Pisces. Basic reason of such explanation is an attempt to help a modern man to cope with his unrootedness and world view disorientation that constantly carry a threat of utopian psychoses. Th e book will be interesting not only for psychologists and psychotherapists but also for philosophers, religious scholars, anthropologists, art critics as well as all who aims to understand the bases of our existance, oft en hidden from view.