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Jun 2023
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39: Carl Jung & Alchemy • Part I: Dreams...

MJDorian
About this episode

What is alchemy? Where does it come from? When did it begin? What does Jung find in alchemy? What does it represent to him that is so important, so profound, that it causes him to abandon his inspired work of the Red Book? It’s time to find out. 


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Cover art: detail of the Ripley Scroll (1624), depicting a phoenix eating its own wings, which was a paradoxical image that excited Dr. Jung when he stumbled on it as he first came across while conducting dream analysis of one of his patients.

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Research Sources:

• Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung

• The Red Book by Carl Jung

• Psychology and Alchemy by Carl Jung

• Alchemy by Marie Louise von Franz

• Man & His Symbols by Carl Jung

• The Secret of The Golden Flower (trans. by Thomas Cleary)

• The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus

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