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On Psychological and Visionary Art : Notes from C. G. Jung's Lecture on Gérard de Nerval's Aurélia / C. G. Jung; ed. by Craig E. Stephenson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philemon Foundation Series ; 12Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries onlyDescription: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 30 halftones. 48 line illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691162478
  • 9781400873470
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 843.7 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ2260.G36 Z74 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- ONE. Introduction -- TWO. Jung's Abstract on Nerval from The Symbolic Life (Collected Works, Volume 18) -- THREE. Lecture on Gérard de Nerval -- FOUR. Minutes of the discussion following the 1945 Lecture -- FIVE. Jung's Notes to the 1942 Lecture Gérard de Nerval's Aurélia -- SIX. Jung's First Notes on Aurélia, 1942 -- SEVEN. Aurélia, or dream and Life -- References -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: In 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zürich on the French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval's visionary memoir, Aurélia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent attempt to emerge from madness. Published here for the first time, Jung's lecture is both a cautionary psychological tale and a validation of Nerval's visionary experience as a genuine encounter.Nerval explored the irrational with lucidity and exquisite craft. He privileged the subjective imagination as a way of fathoming the divine to reconnect with what the Romantics called the life principle. During the years of his greatest creativity, he suffered from madness and was institutionalized eight times. Contrasting an orthodox psychoanalytic interpretation with his own synthetic approach to the unconscious, Jung explains why Nerval was unable to make use of his visionary experiences in his own life. At the same time, Jung emphasizes the validity of Nerval's visions, differentiating the psychology of a work of art from the psychology of the artist. The lecture suggests how Jung's own experiments with active imagination influenced his reading of Nerval's Aurélia as a parallel text to his own Red Book.With Craig Stephenson's authoritative introduction, Richard Sieburth's award-winning translation of Aurélia, and Alfred Kubin's haunting illustrations to the text, and featuring Jung's reading marginalia, preliminary notes, and revisions to a 1942 lecture, On Psychological and Visionary Art documents the stages of Jung's creative process as he responds to an essential Romantic text.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- ONE. Introduction -- TWO. Jung's Abstract on Nerval from The Symbolic Life (Collected Works, Volume 18) -- THREE. Lecture on Gérard de Nerval -- FOUR. Minutes of the discussion following the 1945 Lecture -- FIVE. Jung's Notes to the 1942 Lecture Gérard de Nerval's Aurélia -- SIX. Jung's First Notes on Aurélia, 1942 -- SEVEN. Aurélia, or dream and Life -- References -- Index -- Backmatter

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In 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zürich on the French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval's visionary memoir, Aurélia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent attempt to emerge from madness. Published here for the first time, Jung's lecture is both a cautionary psychological tale and a validation of Nerval's visionary experience as a genuine encounter.Nerval explored the irrational with lucidity and exquisite craft. He privileged the subjective imagination as a way of fathoming the divine to reconnect with what the Romantics called the life principle. During the years of his greatest creativity, he suffered from madness and was institutionalized eight times. Contrasting an orthodox psychoanalytic interpretation with his own synthetic approach to the unconscious, Jung explains why Nerval was unable to make use of his visionary experiences in his own life. At the same time, Jung emphasizes the validity of Nerval's visions, differentiating the psychology of a work of art from the psychology of the artist. The lecture suggests how Jung's own experiments with active imagination influenced his reading of Nerval's Aurélia as a parallel text to his own Red Book.With Craig Stephenson's authoritative introduction, Richard Sieburth's award-winning translation of Aurélia, and Alfred Kubin's haunting illustrations to the text, and featuring Jung's reading marginalia, preliminary notes, and revisions to a 1942 lecture, On Psychological and Visionary Art documents the stages of Jung's creative process as he responds to an essential Romantic text.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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