The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann

The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann

A landmark account of the evolution of consciousness by one of the twentieth century’s leading Jungian psychologists

This book draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann, one of C. G. Jung’s most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right, shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, the tail-eating serpent. The intermediate stages are projected in the universal myths of the World Creation, the Great Mother, the Separation of the World Parents, the Birth of the Hero, the Slaying of the Dragon, the Rescue of the Captive, and the Transformation and Deification of the Hero. Neumann traces how, throughout this sequence, the Hero is the evolving ego consciousness. With a foreword by Jung, The Origins and History of Consciousness is an eloquent and enduring meditation on myth and the human psyche.

Erich Neumann (1905–1960), a psychologist and philosopher, was born in Berlin and lived in Tel Aviv from 1934 until his death. His books include Amor and Psyche, The Fear of the Feminine, and The Great Mother (all Princeton). C. G. Jung (1875–1961) was one of the most important psychologists of the twentieth century and the founder of analytical psychology.

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ISBN 13	9780691279084
ISBN 10	069127908X
Title	The Origins and History of Consciousness
Author	Erich Neumann
Series	Bollingen Recollections
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Year published	2026-01-20
Number of pages	552
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