Marie-Louise von Franz - Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche

Whether explaining the psychic complexities of gender or racial conflict, or the survival value of our connection to other animals, von Franz is perhaps unsurpassed as the archetypal Jungian.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The chief disciple of C. G. Jung, analyst Marie-Louise von Franz uses her vast knowledge of the world of myths, fairy tales, visions, and dreams to examine expressions of the universal symbol of the Anthropos, or Cosmic Mana universal archetype that embodies humanitys personal as well as collective identity. She shows that the meaning of lifethe realization of our fullest human potential, which Jung called individuationcan only be found through a greater differentiation of consciousness by virtue of archetypes, and that ultimately our future depends on relationships, whether between the sexes or among nations, races, religions, and political factions.

MARIE-LOUISE VON FRANZ (19151998) was the foremost student of C. G. Jung, with whom she worked closely from 1934 until his death in 1961. A founder of the C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich, she published widely on subjects including alchemy, dreams, fairy tales, personality types, and psychotherapy.

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ARCHETYPAL DIMENSIONS OF THE PSYCHE

Marie-Louise von Franz

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2014

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Originally published by Daimon Verlag, CH-8840 Einsiedeln, Switzerland, under the title Archetypische Dimensionen der Seele, 1994 by Daimon Verlag.

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The Library of Congress catalogues the hardcover edition of this book as follows:

Franz, Marie-Luise von, 1915

[Archetypische Dimensionen der Seele. English]

Archetypal dimensions of the psyche / Marie-Louise von Franz.1st ed.

p. cm.

A C.G. Jung Foundation book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN 978-0-8348-2978-7

ISBN 1-57062-133-0 (alk. paper)

ISBN 1-57062-426-7 (pbk.)

1. Archetype (Psychology) 2. Jungian psychology. I. Title.

BF175.5.A72F7313 1997 96-38919

150.1954dc21 CIP

CONTENTS

THIS FOURTH VOLUME of the selected writings of Marie-Louise von Franz concludes our project of making available in book form for the first time this authors widely dispersed shorter works. Following Dreams, Psyche and Matter, and Psychotherapy, this volume consists primarily of articles, essays, and lectures from the years 1969 to 1985 addressing the workings and contents of the archetypal realm, i.e., unconscious collective forces acting in relation to past, present, and future developments in ways often not readily evident.

The works comprising this series were not originally conceived as chapters of a book, having been prepared for disparate occasions, often a lecture. They have now been reworked, edited, and arranged thematically, but this, nevertheless, does not preclude a certain amount of repetition.

For those readers unfamiliar with Jungian terminology, a glossary is located at the end of the first volume, Dreams (Boston and London: Shambhala Publications, 1991). A bibliography and an index are located at the back of this fourth volume, and the Sources section in the front lists the original publication locations of material previously appearing elsewhere in print.

As we conclude our series of the selected writings of Marie-Louise von Franz, we would like to thank the author for her tremendous contribution, not only in formulating these works in the first place, but also in helping when it was most needed to compile the present collection, and this at a time in her life when every effort has been difficult for her. We would also like to thank Dr. Ren Malamud of Zurich, who originally conceived the idea of this series and helped it to become a reality. May these books and the ideas they carry lead to much reflection and stimulation.

ROBERT HINSHAW

Daimon Verlag

Einsiedeln, Switzerland

Antichrist or Merlin?: A Problem Inherited from the Middle Ages. Book Forum 5, no. 2 (1980): 23443. Copyright Marie-Louise von Franz.

The Problem of Evil in Fairy Tales. From Evil, edited by the Curatorium of the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, Studies in Jungian Thought, 1967).

The following chapters were translated by Michael H. Kohn. The translations are copyright 1996 by Shambhala Publications, Inc.:

The Bremen Town Musicians from the Point of View of Depth Psychology (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten in tiefenpsychologischer Sicht)

The Cosmic Man as Image of the Goal of the Individuation Process and Human Development (Der kosmische Mensch als Zielbild des Individuationsprozesses und der Menschheitsentwicklung)

The Discovery of Meaning in the Individuation Process (Die Sinnfindung im Individuationsprozess)

Highlights of the Historical Dimension of Analysis (Streiflichter auf die geschichtliche Dimension der Analyse)

Individuation and Social Relationship in Jungian Psychology. Based on a lecture given at Loyola Campus of Concordia University in Montreal on March 19, 1975. Another version appeared (as Individuation and Social Contact in Jungian Psychology) in Harvest 21 (1975): 1227 (published by the Analytical Psychology Club of London).

The Individuation Process (Der Individuationsprozess). Another version of this essay was published as The Process of Individuation in Man and His Symbols, ed. C. G. Jung (New York: Doubleday, 1968).

In the Black Womans Castle: An Interpretation of a Fairy Tale (Bei der schwartzen Frau: Deutungsversuch eines Mrchens)

Jungs Discovery of the Self (Die Selbsterfahrung bei C. G. Jung)

Nike and the Waters of the Styx (Nike und die Gewsser der Styx)