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Aurora Consurgens: A Document Attributed to Thomas Aquinas on the Problem of Opposites in Alchemy (Studies in Jungian Psychology)

By: Marie-Louise von Franz

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Originally published in 1966 as a companion volume to C.G. Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctonis, this scholarly gem is scattered throughout with insights relevant to the psychological process of individuation.

Aurora Consurgens is a rare medieval alchemical treatise, reputed to be the last work of St. Thomas Aquinas, which was rediscovered by Jung in the course of his researches.

It bears out Jung’s long-standing view that the traditional practice of alchemy is best understood symbolically, as an attempt to express unconscious psychic contents through their projection onto matter.

The analysis of Aurora Consurgens by Marie-Louise von Franz suggests that the author experienced a breakthrough of the unconscious while in an ecstatic state shortly before his death. History records that Thomas Aquinas died in a trance soon after expounding the Song of Songs, and Aurora ends with a paraphrase of the same Biblical verses and a vision of the mystic marriage. Von Franz’s penetrating commentary shows how lung’s analytical psychology may be used as a key to ‘unlock the meaning of his cryptic but psychologically significant text.

The medieval Latin text is given with a translation by A.S.B. Glover. Von Franz’s commentary has been translated from the German by R.F.C. Hull, who also translated Jung’s Collected Works.

Publisher:Inner City Books
Binding:Paperback
Volume(s):1
About the Author:Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998) 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.ncluding alchemy, dreams, fairy tales, personality types, and psychotherapy.
Product Dimensions:6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
Translator:A.S.B. Glover, R.F.C. Hull
Pages:556
Publication Date:June 1, 2000