Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934 by C. G. Jung

by Claire Douglas (Editor)

Overview

For C. G. Jung, the beautiful and gifted 28-year-old Christiana Morgan was an inspirational and confirming force whose path in self-analysis paralleled his own quest for self-knowledge. By teaching Morgan the trance-like technique of active imagination, Jung launched her on a pilgrimage of archetypal encounters in a quest for psychological integration—encounters she recorded in the words and brilliant paintings that formed the basis of the seminar Jung would give to his circle in Zurich. Here the careful transcriptions of the seminar notes are combined with color reproductions of the visions paintings, offering an unprecedented view of Jung as a teacher and as a man. He speaks candidly and brilliantly in a dialogue with members of the seminar about the Morgan visions, even as he struggles with the feminine principle in his subject and in his own psyche. The theories of his years of intellectual research—the anima and animus, the process of individuation, the mythopoetic archetypes of the collective unconscious—all spring to life in the fiery imagery of the vision quest.


Morgan paints an imaginal landscape where the feminine self crosses into the unconsciousness of night and death. In her visioning she links earth and sky, body and spirit, the infernal and the sublime. Recounting her journey, Jung employs his full range of scholarship and professional experience as he unravels the skein of archetypal parallels from western myth and eastern yoga.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691099712
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	12/21/1997
Series:	Jung Seminars , #147
Edition description:	2 Volume Set
Pages:	1500
Product dimensions:	7.75(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

The editor of this volume, Claire Douglas, is the author of Translate this Darkness: The Life of Christiana Morgan.

Table of Contents

Volume
INTRODUCTION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
MEMBERS OF THE SEMINAR
LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS
FALL TERM
I. 15 October 1930
II. 22 October 1930
III. 29 October 1930
IV. 5 November 1930
V. 12 November 1930
VI. 19 November 1930
VII. 27 November 1930
VIII. 3 December 1930
IX. 8 December 1930
X. 9 December 1930
WINTER TERM
I. 21 January 1931
II. 4 February 1931
III. 11 February 1931
IV. 18 February 1931
V. 25 February 1931
VI. 3 March 1931
VII. 11 March 1931
VIII. 18 March 1931
IX. 25 March 1931
SPRING TERM
I. 6 May 1931
II. 21 May 1931
III. 27 May 1931
IV. 3 June 1931
V. 10 June 1931
VI. 24 June 1931
FALL TERM
I. 11 November 1931
II. 18 November 1931
III. 25 November 1931
IV. 2 December 1931
V. 9 December 1931
VI. 16 December 1931
WINTER TERM
I. 20 January 1932
II. 27 January 1932
III. 3 February 1932
IV. 10 February 1932
V. 17 February 1932
VI. 24 February 1932
VII. 2 March 1932
VIII. 9 March 1932
IX. 16 March 1932
Volume
SPRING TERM
I. 4 May 1932
II. 11 May 1932
III. 18 May 1932
IV. 1 June 1932
V. 8 June 1932
VI. 15 June 1932
VII. 22 June 1932
VIII. 29 June 1932
FALL TERM
I. 2 November 1932
II. 16 November 1932
III. 23 November 1932
IV. 30 November 1932
V. 7 December 1932
WINTER TERM
I. 18 January 1933
II. 25 January 1933
III. 1 February 1933
IV. 22 February 1933
V. 1 March 1933
VI. 8 March 1933
SPRING TERM
I. 3 May 1933
II. 10 May 1933
III. 17 May 1933
IV. 24 May 1933
V. 31 May 1933
VI. 7 June 1933
VII. 14 June 1933
VIII. 21 June 1933
FALL TERM
I. 4 October 1933
II. 11 October 1933
III. 18 October 1933
IV. 25 October 1933
V. 8 November 1933
VI. 15 November 1933
VII. 22 November 1933
VIII. 29 November 1933
IX. 6 December 1933
X. 13 December 1933
WINTER TERM
I. 24 January 1934
II. 31 January 1934
III. 7 February 1934
IV. 14 February 1934
V. 21 February 1934
VI. 28 February 1934
VII. 7 March 1934
VIII. 14 March 1934
IX. 21 March 1934
NOTE APRIL 1941
APPENDIX
INDEX
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG

What People are Saying About This

Polly Young-Eisendrath

The Visions seminars constitute a brilliant and demanding masterpiece that was too long circulated in small circles and kept secret from the general public. The publisher and editor are to be congratulated for bringing this noteworthy historical work into the public domain.
— Polly Young-Eisendrath, editor of "The Cambridge Companion to Jung"

From the Publisher

"The Visions seminars constitute a brilliant and demanding masterpiece that was too long circulated in small circles and kept secret from the general public. The publisher and editor are to be congratulated for bringing this noteworthy historical work into the public domain."—Polly Young-Eisendrath, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Jung

"An extraordinary archival treasure of Jung's work in progress, his style and evolving encounters with the unconscious—his own and his analysands'. Claire Douglas and Princeton University Press are to be applauded for bringing together this inimitable work by the grand master of analytical, archetypal and depth psychology, Carl Gustave Jung."—Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., diplomate senior Jungian analyst, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves, The Gift of Story, and The Faithful Gardener

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

An extraordinary archival treasure of Jung's work in progress, his style and evolving encounters with the unconscious—his own and his analysands'. Claire Douglas and Princeton University Press are to be applauded for bringing together this inimitable work by the grand master of analytical, archetypal and depth psychology, Carl Gustave Jung.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., diplomate senior Jungian analyst, author of "Women Who Run With the Wolves", "The Gift of Story", and "The Faithful Gardener"

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"The Visions seminars constitute a brilliant and demanding masterpiece that was too long circulated in small circles and kept secret from the general public. The publisher and editor are to be congratulated for bringing this noteworthy historical work into the public domain."—Polly Young-Eisendrath, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Jung

"An extraordinary archival treasure of Jung's work in progress, his style and evolving encounters with the unconscious—his own and his analysands'. Claire Douglas and Princeton University Press are to be applauded for bringing together this inimitable work by the grand master of analytical, archetypal and depth psychology, Carl Gustave Jung."—Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., diplomate senior Jungian analyst, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves, The Gift of Story, and The Faithful Gardener

Editorial Reviews

"The Visions seminars constitute a brilliant and demanding masterpiece that was too long circulated in small circles and kept secret from the general public. The publisher and editor are to be congratulated for bringing this noteworthy historical work into the public domain."—Polly Young-Eisendrath, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Jung


"An extraordinary archival treasure of Jung's work in progress, his style and evolving encounters with the unconscious—his own and his analysands'. Claire Douglas and Princeton University Press are to be applauded for bringing together this inimitable work by the grand master of analytical, archetypal and depth psychology, Carl Gustave Jung."—Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., diplomate senior Jungian analyst, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves, The Gift of Story, and The Faithful Gardener

From the Publisher