Origins And History Of Consciousness eBook

The Origins and History of Consciousness is an important and wide-ranging interpretation of the relations between psychology and mythology. C.G. Jung, in his introduction, says that it "e;opens at the very place where I unwittingly made landfall on the new continent long ago, namely the realm of matriarchal symbolism: and the author uses a symbol whose significance first dawned on me in my writings on the psychology of alchemy: The Uroboros. Upon this foundation he has succeeded in constructing a unique history of the evolution of consciousness... He arrives at conclusions and insights which are among the most important to be reached in this field."e;Erich Neumann undertakes to show that the individual consciousness passes through the same archetypal stages of development that marked the history of human consciousness as a whole. He draws upon the full range of world myth in the illustration of his thesis, and his account makes unexpectedly fresh and lively reading in a field not always notable for these qualities. Neumann ends the work with a trenchant commentary on contemporary society.