The origins and history of consciousness
By: Erich Neumann ; with a foreword by C. G. Jung; translated from the German by R. F. C. Hull
Contributors: Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961, author of foreword; Hull, R. F. C. (Richard Francis Carrington), 1913-1974, translator
Edition: First Princeton Classics edition.
Series: Bollingen series -- XLII; Princeton classics; Bollingen series -- XLII.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9780691163598
Subjects: Archetype (Psychology); Consciousness; Personality
Work titles: Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins
Description: The origins and history of consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. In this influential book, Neumann shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, the tail-eating serpent. The intermediate stages are projected in the universal myths of the World Creation, Great Mother, Separation of the World Parents, Birth of the Hero, Slaying of the Dragon, Rescue of the Captive, and Transformation and Deification of the Hero. Throughout the sequence, the Hero is the evolving ego consciousness. Featuring a foreword by Jung, this 'Princeton Classics' edition introduces a new generation of readers to this eloquent and enduring work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Originally published in German: Zurich : Rascher Verlag, 1949, under the title: Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins.

Translation of Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins; text corrected in 1964; bibliography amended through 1969.