Carl Gustav Jung - Pszichológia and alkímia - (ÖM 12)

Alchemy, so popular in the Middle Ages - which in a certain sense can be called the predecessor of chemistry - was considered a symbol of pseudoscience for a long time in the twentieth century. According to the scientists of the modern era, the alchemists' confused hocus pocuses to realize the transmutation of metals - especially the gold-making with the help of the "philosopher's stone" - to create the elixir of eternal youth and life and to create artificial life were pointless activities doomed to failure from the start. Among the outstanding scientists of the last century, Jung was the first to take alchemy seriously and to study it in depth throughout his decades of work.
"I noticed very quickly that analytical psychology is surprisingly similar to alchemy. The experiences of the alchemists were my experiences, and their world was, in a certain sense, my world. For me, this naturally meant an ideal discovery, since through it I found the historical counterpart of my unconscious-researching psychology. In this way, my psychology received a historical basis, its innermost essence was given by the possibility of combining it with alchemy, as well as the spiritual continuity going back to Gnosticism."
Psychology and Alchemy is a seminal work of re-evaluation of a forgotten discipline, in which Jung uses the dream cycle of one of his patients to show how the symbols used by alchemists appear in the psyche.

Already published volumes:

3 Psychogenesis of mental illnesses
4 Freud and psychoanalysis
5 Symbols of transformation
6 Psychological types
7 Two papers on analytical psychology
9/I Archetypes and the collective unconscious
9/II Aion
10 The changing civilization
11 On the psychology of Western and Eastern religions
13 On alchemical ideas
15 The phenomenon of spirit in art and science
16 The practice of psychotherapy
17 Personality development
18/I The symbolic life
18/II The symbolic life