Alchemy and the mercurial process of illumination: The royal road to the unconscious psychology of CG Jung. Alchemy and the mercurial process of illumination: The royal road to the unconscious psychology of CG Jung.
CG Jung recognized in alchemy and Gnostic thought the reflection of his psychology of the unconscious.
It was that thought that Jung recognized the unconscious dynamics of psychic projection, which reproduced macrocosmically alchemists of the period reflecting a background of a psychological and symbolic drama, individual path of the alchemist himself.
Jung, aware of that ancient knowledge, a legacy of medieval alchemy, he identified the symbolic life of alchemy to the psychology of unconscious processes, transference analysis and the analysis of dreams. That background narrated rich symbolic
mythologems and deeds of heroes in the blackness of matter, the Sol Niger (Marlan., The Black Sun: The Art of Darkness, Texas A & M 2005), along the old path towards the light (Splendor Solis, Solomon Trismosin 1532).
tell us how the alchemists, the transformation of base metal into gold, the four stages of the cooking process that ended in the Proiect on raw material transformed into Lapis Philosophorum or philosopher's stone and mercury, these were the premises of which the alchemists serviveno to sublimate matter, the physis and infuse Nous primitive. The realization
opus was the alchemist for a path full of symbolic reasons: it is said in the grounds of combat with a dangerous dragon, metaphorically the first matter from which the alchemist was swallowed or explorer had the better of it but not before being bitten by lupus or the lion, fought them, and have led to chemical wedding the Queen, an ancient symbol of the moon in a passionate and incestuous coniunctio Sun teenager with his brother, King and infant son (Fabricius: The 'Alchemy: The Art Director of the medieval symbol 1989). The whole process of
quste chemical wedding was the transformation of metals into gold, alchemy was going on a mental journey, the creator of the ignis processo.Se then was transformed into the blackness argentum vivum in the background water flowed permamens the mercurial fountain, symbol of transformation and renewal, but also poisoning and intoxication, everything was to identify this alchemical transformation with the dual nature of mercury: elusive, dangerous, but a panacea for the sins of the matter.
catholica medicine, the panacea that was the end of the alchemist in the four stages of the process: blackness, whiteness, and rubedo REBIS or pencil, produced the mercury, the substance of arcane philosophers turned into oro.Questo process required a coniunctio between sulfur and salt. Were thus consecrated the marriage hermaphrodite or homo totus, the marriage between the Sun and Moon, the King and Regina.Era lab "chemical" and the secrets of alchemy that all this took place and was held in very aspect of the alchemist in the philosophical attempt to redeem the matter and all the macrocosm of creato.Jung in this case will be discussing the filius macrocosm, filius regis, the Saviour for whom it was the supreme opus deo redentivo.Non was a grantor for the Church as a dogma of the time, since in the very act of redemption was the divine that had to be freed from the grip of the physis or hyle. The pencil philosophorum or as Jung points out, Christ pencil, was the same mysterious stone of the philosophers, the last act of transformation and transmutation, the alchemist by unconscious (CG Jung, op Vol 12, Psychology and Alchemy, 2006 Torino Bollati Boringhieri ristapa ).
unconscious because never for a moment, in identification with the pencil, the alchemist that he himself thought that in Christ the Redeemer which bears the opus magnum.No, because as envidenzia Jung, the unconscious processes were taking place in the psyche of the alchemist and his artifex, which meant that he threw his psychic contents in Metalia inert and animation through phases of blackness, calcinatio, imbiancatio, putrefactio, Mortify, elementorum separatism, division, coniunctio coagulatio and Proiect of the substance of the mercurial lapis.L 'need for redemption and exploration of its psychological drama, the alchemist was a vital route for the transformation of the pencil in gold, and it is a necessary path for Jung analyst for understanding the processes taking place in the psyche of the analysand. pathways that guide the analyst to royal road to the unconscious. Alchemy is unconscious as a symbol, art and magic but also carry out psychological dynamics, legacy of an ancestral mythologeme scrolled through the psyche of the individual. The reality is not divided by processes of projection and introversion of the soul and is what most approaches the alchemy of the psyche to its potential growth process, illumination and transformation.
Sol niger or Black Sun, the unconscious state of matter will go through the stages of alchemical inbiancatio albedo and then turn into rubedo or red and purple sunset at the stage of Rebis, marry the Queen-Moon and make the end of this' adventure, that's all hermaphroditic Selbst represented by the King to two heads, filius regis.
conunctio between the King and Queen, the Sun and Moon, alchemist and soror mystica, escort and aide alchemist through the process, they were glad the final held in the chemical laboratory of the alchemist stesso.Il pencil will be revealed in its beauty of the Self hermaphroditic and mercurial, a symbol of wholeness. That mercury
elusive and dangerous dragon ouroboros that the first field was nothing but a pencil of light volatile and mercurial of the Spirit, the spiritus, the cervus fugitivus. 'S why the alchemists used the motto: aurum nostrum non est aurum vulgar. The common people can understand the things of the crowd, but the spirit is a mercury philosophical opus that although the people caught in the trap hyle ardent materialist in the matter, may underestimate and ignore the individual in self-eslplorazione alchemy, which is an analyst or analysand, must be done and re-integrate as Splendor Solis or gold of the philosophers, in his own psiche.L ' Jung on alchemy was the royal road to the psychology of the unconscious not only to the construction method of amplification that he had raised for the analytical interpretation of dreams, but also as sublime and noble path lined with psychic archaic symbols of an ancient wisdom and heritage West. The process analysis was unconscious for Jung around the years he wrote Psychology and Alchemy (Jung, Op Vol 12.1944) and Coniunctionis Mysterium (CG Jung, 1950), the aouvre maximum individual of his opus, his own inner needs and the mysteries of psychic individuatesi Gnostics and Tessa in the production of alchemical symbols.
Diego Pignatelli Spinazzola
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