ABSTRACT

Mysterium Coniunctionis was first published in the Collected Works of C.G. Jung in 1963. For this second edition of the work, numerous corrections and revisions have been made in cross-references to other volumes of the Collected Works now available and likewise in the Bibliography.

Mysterium Coniunctionis was Jung's last work of book length and gives a final account of his lengthy researches in alchemy. It was Jung's empirical discovery that certain key problems of modern man were prefigures in what t he alchemists called their 'art' or 'process'. Jung maintained that 'the world of alchemical symbols does not belong to the rubbish heap of the past, but stands in a very real and living relationship to our most recent discoveries concerning the psychology of the unconscious'. The volume includes ten plates, a Bibliography, an Index, and an Appendix of original Latin and Greek texts quoted in the work.

chapter 1|3 pages

THE OPPOSITES

chapter 3|20 pages

THE ORPHAN, THE WIDOW, AND THE MOON

chapter 4|5 pages

ALCHEMY AND MANICHAEISM

chapter 1|6 pages

THE ARCANE SUBSTANCE AND THE POINT

chapter 2|8 pages

THE SCINTILLA

chapter 3|33 pages

THE ENIGMA OF BOLOGNA

chapter 1|3 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 2|18 pages

SOL

chapter 3|19 pages

SULPHUR

chapter 4|54 pages

LUNA

chapter 5|75 pages

SAL

chapter 1|3 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 2|4 pages

GOLD AND SPIRIT

chapter 3|9 pages

THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE KING

chapter 5|21 pages

THE DARK SIDE OF THE KING

chapter 6|12 pages

THE KING AS ANTHROPOS

chapter 9|6 pages

REGINA

chapter 1|8 pages

ADAM AS THE ARCANE SUBSTANCE

chapter 2|7 pages

THE STATUE

chapter 3|9 pages

ADAM AS THE FIRST ADEPT

chapter 4|9 pages

THE POLARITY OF ADAM

chapter 5|5 pages

THE "OLD ADAM"

chapter 6|14 pages

THE TRANSFORMATION

chapter 7|4 pages

ROTUNDUM, HEAD, AND BRAIN

chapter 8|19 pages

ADAM AS TOTALITY

chapter 2|8 pages

STAGES OF THE CONJUNCTION

chapter 3|5 pages

THE PRODUCTION OF THE QUINTESSENCE

chapter 4|5 pages

THE MEANING OF THE ALCHEMICAL PROCEDURE

chapter 6|8 pages

SELF-KNOWLEDGE

chapter 7|14 pages

THE MONOCOLUS

chapter 9|11 pages

THE THIRD STAGE: THE UNUS MUNDUS

chapter 10|10 pages

THE SELF AND THE BOUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE