Jung's Alchemical Philosophy: Psyche and the Mercurial Play of Image and Idea

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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1 Philosophical tensions in the historiography of alchemy: the history of science and the history of the human spirit
	Jung and the study of alchemy
	Criticisms of Jung and Eliade (Principe and Newman)
	Limitations of Principe’s and Newman’s Criticisms (Tilton, Caliăn, Hanegraaff, Cheak)
2 The eye of the winged serpent: Mercurius and overcoming the split in the alchemical imagination
	Mercurius duplex
	The pre-alchemy Jung: initiation and the descent into the unconscious
	The Rosarium philosophorum
3 Benign and monstrous conjunctions
	The hermaphrodite
	Abraxas
	Mercurius
	Mysterium Coniunctionis
4 Classical development of Jung’s ideas of alchemy and the Philosophers’ Stone in Von Franz and Edinger
	Marie-Louise von Franz
	Edward F. Edinger
5 Innovations, criticisms, and developments: James Hillman and Wolfgang Giegerich: James Hillman and archetypal psychology: imagination is the cornerstone
	Hillman’s alchemical psychology
	Wolfgang Giegerich and the soul’s logical life
	Giegerich’s alchemy
6 James Hillman and Wolfgang Giegerich: unification and divergence in their psychological and philosophical perspectives
7 Exposition and criticism of Giegerich’s philosophical view of psychology proper and the human-all-too-human
8 The problem of the remainder: the unassimilable remnant – what is at stake?
	Facing the darkness: imbibing philosophical vinegar
9 The alchemical stove: continuing reflections on Hillman’s and Giegerich’s views of alchemy and the Philosophers’ Stone
	Resistance of the remainder
	Sparks of reiteration
	Mystical death
	Turning to stone
	Must we turn to stone? The stone that is not a stone
10 The philosophical basis of the remnant in Kant’s thing-in-itself and in Hegel’s move to surpass it
	Phenomenon and noumenon: the unresolved tension of limit and transcendence in the thought of Kant and Jung
	Hegel’s introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit: from clouds of error to the heaven of truth
	Hegel’s alchemy: splendid isolation or fullness of soul
11 A reflection on the black sun and Jung’s notion of self
	Self and no self
	Depth psychology and the negated self: the strategy of “sous rature”
	The entrance problem
	The absolute
12 Spirit and soul
	Tarrying with the negative
13 The self, the absolute, the stone
	Self and absolute knowing
	The Philosophers’ Stone as chaosmos and the dilemma of diversity
	Mercurius the mediator
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index