{"product_id":"alchemical-active-imagination-revised-edition-9780877735892","title":"Alchemical Active Imagination: Revised Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marie-Louise Von Franz\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Shambhala Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Shambhala Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough alchemy is popularly regarded as the science that sought to transmute base physical matter, many of the medieval alchemists were more interested in developing a discipline that would lead to the psychological and spiritual transformation of the individual. C. G. Jung discovered in his study of alchemical texts a symbolic and imaginal language that expressed many of his own insights into psychological processes. In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz examines a text by the sixteenth-century alchemist and physician Gerhard Dorn in order to show the relationship of alchemy to the concepts and techniques of analytical psychology. In particular, she shows that the alchemists practiced a kind of meditation similar to Jung's technique of active imagination, which enables one to dialogue with the unconscious archetypal elements in the psyche. Originally delivered as a series of lectures at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, the book opens therapeutic insights into the relations among spirit, soul, and body in the practice of active imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shambhala Publications","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082080706711,"sku":"9780877735892","price":1470.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780877735892.webp?v=1767634302","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/alchemical-active-imagination-revised-edition-9780877735892","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}