The archetypal symbolism of animals
Subtitle: lectures given at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, 1954/1958
By: Barbara Hannah ; edited by David Eldred.
Contributors: Eldred, David.
Series: Polarities of the psyche
Publisher: Chiron Publications; Brand: Chiron Pubns
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Wilmette, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Symbolism (Psychology); Archetype (Psychology); Animals -- Psychological aspects.; Psychoanalysis.
Description: "Barbara Hannah, a student and a close friend of C.G. Jung, presents lectures on the symbolic meaning of several domestic and wild animals. According to Jung, the animal is sublime and, in fact, represents the "divine" side of the human psyche. He believed that animals live much more in contact with a "secret" order in nature itself and-far more than human beings-live in close contact with "absolute knowledge" of the unconscious. In contrast to humankind, the animal is the living being that follows its own inner laws beyond good and evil-and is, in this sense, superior. Here Hannah shows how our animal nature can become the psychic source of renewal and natural wholeness."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.