Alchemy and the Psychology of the Unconscious

For Jung, alchemy provided him with a bridge back to the world after his personal confrontation with the unconscious. The images of alchemy provided Jung with a symbolic language that helped him make sense of much that was still obscure in the psychological material of his patients. A familiarity with some of the motifs of alchemy then gives us an excellent way of amplifying and understanding our own psychic material.

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