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''Alchemical Studies'' is Volume 13 in ''The Collected Works of C. G. Jung'', a series of books published by Princeton University Press in the U.S. and Routledge & Kegan Paul in the U.K. It consists of five long essays that trace Carl Jung's developing interest in alchemy from 1929 onward. An introduction and supplement to his major works on the subject, it is illustrated with 42 patients' drawings and paintings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 13: Alchemical Studies )〕 Detailed abstracts of each chapter are available online.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Abstracts: Vol 13: Alchemical Studies )〕 The psychological and religious implications of alchemy were Jung's major preoccupation during the last thirty years of his life. The essays in this volume complete the publication of his alchemial researches, to which three other volumes have been entirely devoted: ''Mysterium Coniunctionis'', ''Psychology and Alchemy'', and ''Aion''. This volume can serve as an introduction to Jung's work on alchemy. The first essay, on Chinese alchemy, marked the beginning of his interest in the subject, and was originally published in a volume written jointly with Richard Wilhelm. The other four are now published for the first time completely in English.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Collected Works of C.G. Jung )〕 Overall, this book discusses the philosophical and religious aspects of alchemy, as alchemy was introduced more as a religion than a science. His concluding statement is that when alchemy became virtually shunned out of existence, the investigation of the human psyche went undiscovered for several hundred years. ==I: Commentary on "The Secret of the Golden Flower"== This commentary on the Secret of the Golden Flower, a Taoist alchemical text believed to be from the twelfth century, was first published by Jung and Richard Wilhelm in 1929. It was revised in 1938 with an additional foreword by Jung.〔Carl Gustav Jung and R.F.C. Hull, ''Alchemical Studies,'' Routledge & Kegan Paul. (1967). p.1〕 In his opening statements, Jung asserts that "Science is the tool of the Western mind... and it obscures our insight only when it claims that the understanding it conveys is the only kind there is." In this chapter, he investigates Taoism, meditation, and corresponding alchemic studies. The golden flower is the light, and the light of heaven is the Tao. Jung mentions that a fatal error in modern thought is that "we believe we can criticize the facts of religion intellectually... we think God is a hypothesis that can be subjected to intellectual treatment, to be affirmed or denied." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alchemical Studies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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