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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jung, C. G., Author.

Contributor:

Stephenson, Craig E., Editor.

Series:

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961. Philemon series.

Philemon Foundation Series ; 12

Philemon Foundation Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.

Jung, C. G.

Nerval, Gérard de, 1808-1855--Mental health.

Nerval, Gérard de.

Nerval, Gérard de, 1808-1855--Psychology.

Nerval, Gerard de, 1808-1855. Aurelia.

Nerval, Gerard de.

Psychology in literature.

Symbolism (Psychology).

Symbolism in literature.

Literature and mental illness.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Permissions

ONE. Introduction / Stephenson, Craig E.

TWO. Jung's Abstract on Nerval from The Symbolic Life (Collected Works, Volume 18)

THREE. Lecture on Gérard de Nerval / Jung, C. G.

FOUR. Minutes of the discussion following the 1945 Lecture

FIVE. Jung's Notes to the 1942 Lecture Gérard de Nerval's Aurélia / Jung, C. G.

SIX. Jung's First Notes on Aurélia, 1942

SEVEN. Aurélia, or dream and Life / Nerval, Gérard de

References

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

"Published with the support of the Philemon Foundation. This book is part of the Philemon Series of the Philemon Foundation."--Title page.

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-200) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9781400873470

1400873479

OCLC:

1132665747