On Psychological and Visionary Art (eBook)

Notes from C. G. Jung's Lecture on Gerard de Nerval's Aurelia

C. G. Jung (Autor)

Craig E. Stephenson (Herausgeber)

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2015
240 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7347-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Craig E. Stephenson is a Jungian analyst in private practice. His books include Anteros: A Forgotten Myth and Possession: Jung's Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche.

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The first English translation of Jung's landmark lecture on Nerval's hallucinatory memoirIn 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zurich on the French Romantic poet Gerard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval's visionary memoir, Aurelia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent attempt to emerge from madness. Published here for the first time, Jung's lecture is both a cautionary psychological tale and a validation of Nerval's visionary experience as a genuine encounter.Nerval explored the irrational with lucidity and exquisite craft. He privileged the subjective imagination as a way of fathoming the divine to reconnect with what the Romantics called the life principle. During the years of his greatest creativity, he suffered from madness and was institutionalized eight times. Contrasting an orthodox psychoanalytic interpretation with his own synthetic approach to the unconscious, Jung explains why Nerval was unable to make use of his visionary experiences in his own life. At the same time, Jung emphasizes the validity of Nerval's visions, differentiating the psychology of a work of art from the psychology of the artist. The lecture suggests how Jung's own experiments with active imagination influenced his reading of Nerval's Aurelia as a parallel text to his own Red Book.With Craig Stephenson's authoritative introduction, Richard Sieburth's award-winning translation of Aurelia, and Alfred Kubin's haunting illustrations to the text, and featuring Jung's reading marginalia, preliminary notes, and revisions to a 1942 lecture, On Psychological and Visionary Art documents the stages of Jung's creative process as he responds to an essential Romantic text.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Philemon Foundation Series
• Reihe/Serie: Philemon Foundation Series
• Zusatzinfo: 78 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aeneid • Aestheticism • Alchemical Studies • Alfred Kubin • allegory of the cave • Allusion • analytical psychology • Ancient furniture • another woman • Archetype • Arthur Schopenhauer • Camp bed • Carl Jung • Cemetery • chintz • City of • Clematis • Collective Unconscious • Consciousness • Daemon (classical mythology) • decapitation • Dream Vision • Eloquence • Emanuel Swedenborg • Emil Kraepelin • Eugen Bleuler • Experience • Explanation • Faust • Feeling • Four-poster bed • Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock • Friedrich Nietzsche • Gérard de Nerval • Gnosticism • God The Father • Good and evil • Hans Prinzhorn • humility • Hypnerotomachia Poliphili • Illustration • Indication (medicine) • Individuation • Inner Experience • Johann Peter Eckermann • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Josef Breuer • Karl Jaspers • La Vie (painting) • Lecture • Libido • Literature • Marie-Louise von Franz • Mephistopheles • Mysterium coniunctionis • narrative • New York University • Northrop Frye • Novel • peripeteia • Philemon Foundation • Philosopher • Pierre Janet • pity • Poetry • Prehistory • Princeton University Press • Prometheus • Pseudonym • Psychoanalysis • Psychology • Psychology and Alchemy • psychology of the unconscious • psychopathology • Reality • reality principle • Romanticism • Schizophrenia • Science • Somnium (novel) • Sonu Shamdasani • Stupor • Suicide • Symptom • Syncretism • The Chymical Wedding • The Devil's Elixirs • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell • The Symbolic Life • The Various • Thought • tomb • unconscious mind • urizen • Verstehen • Victor Hugo • Voyage to the Orient • Walpurgis Night • Wildness • Zoroastrianism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7347-9 / 1400873479
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7347-0 / 9781400873470