Nathan Schwartz-Salant brings together a key selection of Jung's writings on alchemy. He provides a clear and concise introduction to the principles of alchemy and the importance of it in the context of Jung's psychology.
Jung realized that the fantastic images of alchemy - fire-breathing dragons, hermaphrodites, lions giving birth to the sun - are not so far from our daily lives. He made sense of such seemingly incomprehensible symbols and showed how, in fact, such images represent a usually...