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Alchemical psychology / James Hillman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Hillman, James. Works ; v. 5.Publication details: Putnam, Conn. : Spring Publications, cop. 2014.Description: 342 p. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780882145839
  • 0882145835
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Alchemical psychology.DDC classification:
  • 150.1954 HIL 23
LOC classification:
  • BF173 .H488 2010
NLM classification:
  • 2010 K-844
  • WM 460.7
Contents:
The therapeutic value of alchemical language : a heated introduction -- Rudiments -- The suffering of salt -- The seduction of black -- Alchemical blue and the unio mentalis -- Silver and the white earth -- The yellowing of the work -- Concerning the stone : alchemical images of the goal -- The imagination of air and the collapse of alchemy -- The azure vault : caelum as experience.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 150.1954 HIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 11/05/2023 39002100642249

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book collects all of James Hillman's papers on the alchemical imagination from 1980 to the present: "Therapeutic Value of alchemical Language"; "Silver and the White Earth I & II"; "Alchemical Blue and the Unio Mentalis"; "Salt: A Chapter in Alchemical Psychology"; "rudiments: Fire. Ovens, Vessels, Fuel, Glass"; "The Imagination of air and the collapse of alchemy"; "The Yellowing of the Work"; "White Supremacy"; "Concerning the Stone - Alchemical Images of the Goal"; "The Azure Vault: Caelum as Experience."

"Published in conjunction with Dallas Institute Publications."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-344) and index.

The therapeutic value of alchemical language : a heated introduction -- Rudiments -- The suffering of salt -- The seduction of black -- Alchemical blue and the unio mentalis -- Silver and the white earth -- The yellowing of the work -- Concerning the stone : alchemical images of the goal -- The imagination of air and the collapse of alchemy -- The azure vault : caelum as experience.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

James Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 12, 1926. He attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University for two years before joining the Navy's Hospital Corps in 1944. He studied English literature in Paris at the Sorbonne and graduated with a degree in mental and moral science from Trinity College in Dublin. In 1953, he moved to Zurich and enrolled at the C. G. Jung Institute. In 1959, he became the director of studies at the institute and stayed in that position for the next 10 years. He wrote over 20 books including Suicide and the Soul, Re-Visioning Psychology, and The Soul's Code. He died due to complications of bone cancer on October 27, 2011 at the age of 85.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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