Interpretations of Visions: Notes on the Seminar in Analytical Psychology. [Carl Jung]13 Vols. mimiographed inc. (With 29 orig. photographic plates.) [RARE PUBLICATION, PRODUCED EXCLUSIVELY FOR PARTICIPANTS OF THE SEMINARS] Only one other known complete copy found in the electronic databases

Jung, Carl Gustav; Mary Foote (ed.); Carol Sawyer (Foreword Index)

Edité par Privately printed for the use of members of the seminar, Zurich, 1934

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Quarto (11 x 8 1/2"). Each with 1-3 preliminary leaves, 283, 275, 201, 163 (5), 249, 230, 133, 159, 178, 227, 190 leaves, 29 plates, (1) 36 leaves (index). All bound in original dark blue half cloth over marbled boards. Foreword to index volume by Carol Sawyer. The photostatic prints are pasted onto heavy paper, each numbered in ink by hand underneath the print, and loosely inserted into the folder. Volume 1 with handwritten dedication "Für Gerhard, August 31." Volumes 2 11 with "Gerhard Adler" inked to front free endpapers. This set is from the library of the important figure of Analytic Psychology, known for his translations of the "Collected Works" by Carl Jung into English. Set of thirteen volumes: eleven with multi graphed typescript copies from notes taken by the professional secretary Mary Foote during Carl Jung seminars held from 1930 1934. Seminars were also recorded by pupils of Carl Jung and edited by him. Volume twelve contains twenty-nine photographs of paintings by Christiana Morgan, volume thirteen the index. These sets were issued in a very small number for the use of participants of the seminar only. The pupils were not authorized to lend them out, quote or publish any of the material without the explicit authorization of Dr. Jung. A small white paper label pasted to inside front covers of volumes 1 4 reading: "This report is strictly for the use of members of the Seminar, with the understanding that it is not to be circulated." The other volumes contain this information printed on the "Restricted Usage" page. The topic of these seminars was the analysis of dreams and artwork by the American artist Christiana Morgan, a patient of Carl Jung, and the ultimate "femme inspiratrice" or the manifestation of the perfect feminine, as Jung referred to her after their first meeting. Morgan was said to produce artwork in a semi-hypnotic state creating mythic visions. She was also a writer and lay psychoanalyst at Harvard known for co-authoring the Thematic Apperception Test, a widely used projective psychological test. Having received a few requests to lecture on Morgan's paintings a vote was taken on Jung's suggestion among the participants of the Vision Seminar to decide whether to continue with the regular series of dream interpretations or lectures about unconscious pictures by Morgan instead. The class voted for the "picture method." "I must explain to you that the lectures are about the development, one could say, of the transcendent function of dreams, and the actual representation of those images which ultimately serve in the synthesis of the individual, - the reconciliation of the pairs of opposites and the whole process of symbol formation (from Jung's opening address to the students in the seminar)." The seminars have to be seen in the context of Jung's work and research on what he had termed the "collective unconsciousness" in 1916, this being another attempt to gather conclusive evidence for what was to become his "Concept of the Collective Unconscious." The term "collective unconsciousness" first appeared in Jung's 1916 essay "The Structure of the Unconscious," distinguishing between the "personal" (Freudian) and the "collective" unconscious." (Jung collected works.) In 1929 in "The Significance of Constitution and Heredity in Psychology" Jung wrote: "And the essential thing, psychologically, is that in dreams, fantasies, and other exceptional states of mind the most far-fetched mythological motifs and symbols can appear autochthonously at any time, often, apparently, as the result of particular influences, traditions, and excitations working on the individual, but more often without any sign of them. These "primordial images" or "archetypes," as I have called them, belong to the basic stock of the unconscious psyche and cannot be explained as personal acquisitions. Together they make up that psychic stratum which has been called the collective unconscious." (Jung collected works.). And in 1936 he delivered.

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• Titre: Interpretations of Visions: Notes on the Seminar in Analytical Psychology. [Carl Jung]13 Vols. mimiographed inc. (With 29 orig. photographic plates.) [RARE PUBLICATION, PRODUCED EXCLUSIVELY FOR PARTICIPANTS OF THE SEMINARS] Only one other known complete copy found in the electronic databases
• Éditeur: Privately printed for the use of members of the seminar, Zurich
• Date de parution: 1934
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Original document.