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Feb 2025
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109: Carl Jung - Psychology & Alchemy, p...

Untimely Reflections
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Today we continue with Psychology & Alchemy. This week, we'll spend the beginning of the episode considering the parallel between the lapis philosophorum and Christ, and the unusual claim of the alchemists that man can redeem God. The rest of the episode concerns Carl Jung's extended dream analysis of a single patient, which he found to be laden with alchemical imagery and symbolism.


Episode art: The Anthropos with the Four Elements

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