Symbols of Transformation, by C.G. Jung

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Symbols of Transformation, by C.G. Jung

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Symbols of Transformation: An Analysis of the Prelude to a Case of Schizophrenia
by C.G. Jung
Volume 5: Bollingen Series XX
Editors: Sir Herbert Read; Michael Fordham, M.D., M.R.C.P.; Gerhard Adler, Ph.D.; William McGuire, Executive Editor
Translated by R. F. C. Hull
Translated from Symbole der Wandlung (4th edition, rewritten, of Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido), published by Rascher Verlag, Zurich, 1952.
© 1956 by Bollingen Foundation, Inc.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: [PDF HERE]

• EDITORIAL NOTE
• TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
• NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
• LIST OF PLATES
• LIST OF TEXT FIGURES
• FOREWORD TO THE FOURTH (SWISS) EDITION
• FOREWORD TO THE THIRD (GERMAN) EDITION
• FOREWORD TO THE SECOND (GERMAN) EDITION
• AUTHOR’S NOTE TO THE FIRST AMERICAN/ENGLISH EDITION
PART ONE
• Introduction
• Two Kinds of Thinking
• The Miller Fantasies: Anamnesis
• The Hymn of Creation
• The Song of the Moth
PART TWO
• Introduction
• The Concept of Libido
• The Transformation of Libido
• The Origin of the Hero
• Symbols of the Mother and of Rebirth
• The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother
• The Dual Mother
• The Sacrifice
• Epilogue
• APPENDIX: The Miller Fantasies
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• LINGUISTIC ABBREVIATIONS
• INDEX

LIST OF PLATES

For full documentation of sources, see the Bibliography, P = photograph.
• Frontispiece. The Ostian head of Mithras
• Roman. Museo Laterano, Rome. P: Museum, courtesy of Torgil
• Magnusson.
• Ia. Expulsion of the demons: Anonymous engraving, 17th century. P: Courtesy of Dr. Jolande Jacobi.
• Ib. Sun-god: Shamanistic Eskimo idol, Alaska. P: From Wirth, Der Aufgang der Menschheit, Pl. XI, fig. 1.
• II. Romulus and Remus with the She-Wolf: Painted wood, northern Italian, medieval. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, P: Museum, Crown copyright.
• III. Christ in the Virgin’s womb: Upper Rhenish Master, Germany, c. 1400. Formerly Staatliche Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. P: From Wachlmayr, Das Christgeburtsbild, p. 4.
• IVa. Boar-headed mother goddess: shakti of boar-headed vishnu: Relief, northern India, 7th century. British Museum, P: Museum.
• IVb. Scenes from the Eleusinian Mysteries: From a burial urn, Rome, 1st century A.D. Formerly in the Kircher Museum, Rome. Reconstructed drawing from Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma, VII (1879), 2nd series, Pls. II–III.
• Va. Veneration of the Buddha’s teachings as a sun-wheel: Stupa of Amaravati, India, 2nd century A.D. Government Museum, Madras. P Guirand, Mythologie générale, p. 330.
• Vb. The Son of Man between the Seven Candlesticks: Universitätsbibliothek, Tübingen: Beatus Commentary, Theol. Lat. fol. 561, fol. 3 v. P: E. Surkamp, courtesy of the Bibliothek.
• VI. The initiation of Apuleius: Title-page, Book XI, Apuleius, Les Metamorphoses (1648), p. 346.
• VII. The winged sun-disc, above the King: Throne of Tut-Ankh-Amon, 14th century B.C. P: Courtesy of the Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
• VIII. The Overshadowing of Mary: Tempera painting on wood, Erfurt Cathedral, 1620–40. P: From Spiess, Marksteine der Volkskunst, II, fig. 112.
• IXa. Winged sun-moon disc and tree of life: Hittite relief, Sakjegeuzi, northern Syria. P: From Orientalische Literaturzeitung, XII (1909) : 9, Pl. II, fig-2.
• IXb. Crucifixion, and the serpent lifted up: Thaler struck by the goldsmith Hieronymus Magdeburger of Annaberg. P: Courtesy of the Ciba Archives, Basel.
• X. “Sin”: Painting by Franz Stuck (1863–1928), Germany. Bayerische Staatliche Gemäldesammlung, Munich. P: Gallery.
• XIa. The King, attended, sacrifices to the sun-god: Stele of King Nabupaliddina, Babylon, 870 B.C. British Museum. P: Museum.
• XIb The fertility god Frey: Bronze figure, Södermanland, Sweden. Drawings from Montelius, Opuscula, p. 406.
• XII. Phanes in the egg: Orphic relief, Modena Museum. P: From Revue archéologique, 3rd series, XL (1902), Pl. I, facing p. 432.
• XIIIa. The fire-god Tjintya: Wood-carving, Bali. P: Courtesy of the Ciba Archives, Basel.
• XIIIb. Agni on the ram, with fire-sticks: Teak processional carving, southern India. Musée Guimet, Paris. P: Museum.
• XIVa. The nourishing earth-mother: Vault painting, Limburg Cathedral, c. 1235. P: From Clemen, Die romanischen Wandmalereien, Pl. 51.
• XIVb. Gorgon: Detail from a Greek vase. Louvre. P: Archives photographiques.
• XV. The Churning of the Milky Ocean: Miniature painting, Rajput School, India. Musée Guimet, Paris. P: Museum.
• XVI. Kihe Wahine, goddess of goblins and lizards: Kou wood with human teeth, Hawaii. P: Friedrich Hewicker, from Tischner, Oceanic Art, pl. 89.
• XVII. Female figure with head-dress symbolizing kingly power: King’s incense bowl, Yoruba, West Africa. Hesse State Museum,
• Darmstadt. P: P. Hirlmann, Darmstadt.
• XVIII. The crowned hermaphrodite:From a manuscript, “De alchimia,” attributed to Thomas Aquinas, c. 1520. Rijksuniversiteit Bibliotheek, Leiden, Codex Vossianus Chymicus 29, fol. 91. P: Courtesy of the Library.
• XIX. Gilgamesh with the herb of immortality: Relief, palace of Assurnasirpal II (885–860 B.C.), Nimrud, Assyria. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. P: Courtesy of the Museum.
• XXa. The horned Alexander: Coin of Lysimachus, 3rd century B.C. P: From Bernoulli, Die Darstellungen Alexanders, Pl. VIII, fig. 4.
• XXb. The Dadophors with raised and lowered torches: From a Mithraic marble bas-relief. Museum, Palermo. P: Randazzo.
• XXIa. The god Men, on the cock: Attic wall-relief. National Museum, Athens. P: Alison Frantz, Athens.
• XXIb. American Indian dancer, in ceremonial head-dress: New Mexico. P: George Hight, Gallup.
• XXIIa. The New Jerusalem (Revelation, ch. 21): From a Bible illustrated and printed by Matthaeus Merian, Amsterdam, 1650.
• XXIIb. A man and woman devoured by the Terrible Mother: Shaman’s amulet, walrus ivory, Tlingit Indians, Alaska, 19th century. American Museum of Natural History, New York. P: Courtesy of the Museum.
• XXIII. Ardhanari: Shiva and Parvati united: Polychrome clay, India, 19th century. Victoria and Albert Museum,London. P Courtesy of Bush Collection, Columbia University, New York.
• XXIVa. Mithras and Helios: Fragment from the Mithraeum near Klagenfurt. Carinthian State Museum, Klagenfurt. P: W. Prugger, courtesy of the Museum.
• XXIVb. Diana of Ephesus, with the mural crown: Alabaster and bronze, Roman, 2nd century A.D. National Museum, Naples. P: Anderson.
• XXV. Lingam with yoni: Angkor Wat, Cambodia, c. 12th century. P: Eliot Elisofon, copyright by Time, Inc.
• XXVI. The Fountain of Life: Icon, Constantinople School, 17th century. Coll. Dr. S. Amberg, Ettiswil, near Lucerne. P: Courtesy of Dr. Jolande Jacobi.
• XXVII. Stoup, with arms encircling belly: Church at Kilpeck, Herefordshire, early 12th century. P: Courtesy of Dr. C. A. Meier, Zurich.
• XXVIII. Hook for hanging: Painted wood, northern New Guinea. Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, P: Museum.
• XXIX. The Goddess in the Lingam: Cambodia, 14th century. Musée Guimet, Paris. P: Museum.
• XXXa. Mater Ecclesia: From the manuscript “Scivias” of St. Hildegarde of Bingen, Germany, 12th century. Formerly in the Nassauische Landesbibliothek, Wiesbaden; destroyed in the second World War. P: Library.
• XXXb. The cow-headed Hathor: Bronze, Serapeum of Saqqara, late period. Cairo Museum. P: From Daressy, “Statues de divinités,” no. 39134.
• XXXI. The Tree of Life: Bronze vessel, Egypt, 7th-6th century B.C. Louvre. P: Archives photographiques.
• XXXIIa. Jackal-headed Anubis bending over a mummy: From a tomb, Der el-Medinah, Thebes, XXth Dynasty. P: A. Gaddis, Luxor.
• XXXIIb. The sun-eating lion of alchemy: From a manuscript, St. Gall Bibliothek, 17th century. P: Courtesy of the Ciba Archives, Basel.
• XXXIII. The Mithraic sacrifice creating fruitfulness: The Heddernheim Relief, reverse. Nassauisches Landesmuseum, Wiesbaden, P: From Cumont, Textes et monuments, II, Pl. VIII.
• XXXIV. Demon eating the sun: Stone, eastern Java, 15th century. Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, P: Museum.
• XXXV. Buddhist tree of the dead: Wood carving, China. Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin; destroyed in the second World War. P: Museum.
• XXXVI. Christ on the Tree of Life: Painting, Strasbourg School. Strasbourg Gallery. P: Braun.
• XXXVII. The Cross on Adam’s grave: Detail over west door, Strasbourg Cathedral, c. 1280. P: Marc Foucault, from Thibout, La Cathédrale de Strasbourg, pl 4.
• XXXVIIIa. Lamia bearing off a new-born babe: From the frieze “Tomb of the Harpies,” Acropolis of Xanthos. British Museum. P: Museum.
• XXVIIIb. The devouring mother: Shaman’s amulet, walrus tusk, Tlingit Indians, Alaska. American Museum of Natural History, New York. P: Courtesy of the Museum.
• XXXIX. The wak-wak tree with its human fruit: From a Turkish history of the West Indies, Woodcut from a history of the West Indies by Ta’rikh al-Hind al-Gharbi, Constantinople, 1730.
• XL. Mithras sacrificing the bull: The Heddernheim Relief. Nassauisches Landesmuseum, Wiesbaden. P: Cumont, Textes et monuments, II PI. VII.
• XLIa. The cross of Palenque: Mayan relief, Yucatán, Mexico. Drawing from Maudslay, in Biologia Centrali-Americana: Archaeology, IV, pl. 76.
• XLIb. The shaping of the world-egg: Ptah working on a potter’s wheel: Egypt. Painting from Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, I, p. 500.
• XLII. Regeneration in the mother’s body: Wooden figure, Nootka Indians, Vancouver Island, Canada. American Museum of Natural History, New York, P: Courtesy of the Museum.
• XLIII. Mock crucifixion: Graffito, wall of the Imperial Cadet School, Palatine, Rome. Museo delle Terme (formerly in the Kircher Coll.), Rome. P: Anderson.
• XLIV. Aion, with the signs of the zodiac: Rome, and-3rd century. Museo Profano, Vatican. P: Alinari.
• XLV. Death the archer: Detail from an engraving by the “Master of 1464,” German School. From Publications of the International Chalcographical Society, 1888, Pl. I.
• XLVIa. The lotus growing out of Vishnu’s navel, with Brahma inside: Relief, Vijayanagar, India. P: From Guirand, Mythologie générale, p. 320.
• XLVIb. Ixion on the wheel: From a Cumaean vase. P: From Archaeologisches Institut des Deutschen Reiches, Annali, XLV (1873), Pl. IK.
• XLVII. Vishnu as a fish: Zinc figurine, India, 19th century. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. P: Museum.
• XLVIII. The witch Rangda, thief of children: Painted wood, Bali. P: L. Fritz, Berlin, from Prampolini, La Mitologia, II, p. 416.
• XLIXa. Mithras carrying the bull: Relief, Castle of Stockstadt, Germany. P: From Drexel, “Das Kastell Stockstadt,” Pl. XIII, fig. 5.
• XLIXb. Queen Maya’s dream of the Buddha’s conception: Relief, Gandhara. P: From Le Coq, Die Buddhistische Spätantike, I, PI. 14a.
• La. The Hathor Cow, suckling Queen Hatshepsut: Relief, Anubis Chapel, Temple of Der el-Bahri, XVIIIth Dynasty. P: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• Lb. The goddess Artio with bears: a Roman parallel to Artemis: Bronze group, dedicated to the goddess of Licinia Sabinilla, from Muri, near Bern. Historical Museum, Bern. P: Museum.
• LI. The Mistress of the Beasts: Greek hydria, 600 B.C., found near Bern. Historical Museum, Bern. P: Museum.
• LII. A corn-god: Clay vessel, Chimbote culture, Peru. P: From Fuhrmann, Reich der Inka, I, pl. 59.
• LIII. Basket of Isis, with snake: Marble altar from Caligula’s temple to Isis, Rome. Museo Capitolino, Rome. P: Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut, Rome.
• LIV. Matuta, an Etruscan Pietà: Fifth century B.C. Museo Archeologico, Florence. P: Alinari.
• LV. The Tree of Enlightenment: Pillar relief, stupa of Bharhut, India, 1st century B.C. P: From Cohn, Buddha in der Kunst des Ostens, fig. 3, p. xxiv.
• LVI. The Vision of Ezekiel: Bible of Manerius (French manuscript). Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, MS. Lat. 11534. P: Bibliothèque.
• LVIIa. Cista and serpent: Silver coin, Ephesus, 57 B.C. British Museum. P: Museum.
• LVIIb. The sacrifice to the snake deity: Votive tablet, Sialesi (Eteonis), Boeotia. P: Courtesy of the Ciba Archives, Basel.
• LVIII. Triple-bodied Hecate: Roman. Museum of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. P: From Jones, Catalogue.
• LIXa. The self-consuming dragon: From Lambsprinck’s symbols in the Musaeum Hermeticum (1678), p. 353.
• LIXb. Circle of gods: Balinese drawing. Courtesy of the Ciba Archives, Basel.
• LX. Christ surrounded by the Evangelists: Relief, Church at Arles-sur-Tech, Pyrénées-orientales, 11th century. P: Archives photographiques, Paris.
• LXIa. The Serpent Mystery: Altar to the Lares, Pompeii. P: Courtesy of the Ciba Archives, Basel.
• LXIb. Priapus with snake: Roman. Museo Archeologico, Verona. P: Courtesy of Dr. G. Mardersteig.
• LXII. Devouring monster: Stone, Belahan, eastern Java, 11th century. Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden. P: Museum.
• LXIIIa. The regenerative symbol of the Haloa Festival: From a Greek vase, by the Pan Painter. P: From Deubner, Attische Feste, pl. 4, fig. 2.
• LXIIIb. Mixing-pot with lion and snake: Detail from the Heddernheim Relief (cf. PL XL). Nassauisches Landesmuseum, Wiesbaden. P: From Cumont, Textes et monuments, II, Pl. VII.
• LXIV. Rubens: The Last Judgment: 1618–20. Alte Pinakothek, Munich. P: Bayerische Staatliche Gemäldesammlung.

LIST OF TEXT FIGURES

1. The Mother of All Living: Woodcut from Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; from Fierz-David, The Dream of Poliphilo, p. 67.
2. The Eye of God: Frontispiece to Jakob Böhme, Seraphinisch Blumengärtlein; from Auslese aus den mystischreligiösen Schriften Jakob Böhmes.
3. The Voyage of the Sun: Late Egyptian. From Schaefer, Von ägyptischer Kunst, Pl. LIII, fig. 1.
4. Germanic sun-idol: Woodcut from Botho, Sachsisch Chronicon. P: British Museum.
5. The life-giving Sun: Amenophis IV on his throne: Relief, Egypt. Drawing from Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, II, p. 74.
6. The mercurial serpent, alchemical symbol of psychic transformation: Engraving from Barchusen, Elementa chemiae, fig. 62.
7. The Sun’s hands: Relief, Spitalkirche, Tübingen. Rubbing from Erich Jung, Germanische Götter und Helden, fig. 2.
8. The Tempting of Eve: Woodcut from the Speculum humanae salvationis; from Worringer, Die altdeutsche Buchillustration, fig. 6, p. 37.
9. Mithras with sword and torch: Roman sculpture, excavated on the Esquiline Hill. Engraving from Cumont, Textes et monuments, II, fig. 28, p. 202.
10. Serpent representing the orbit of the moon: Assyrian boundary stone, Susa. Drawing from Roscher, Lexikon, IV, col. 1475.
11. Bes, with Horus-eyes: Bronze figure, Serapeum of Saqqara, Egypt, c. 6th century B.C. Louvre, Paris. Drawing from Lanzone, Dizionario, I, Pl. LXXX, fig. 3.
12. The birth-giving orifice: From a Mexican lienzo. Drawing from Danzel, Symbole, pl. 87.
13. Odysseus as a Cabiric dwarf, with Circe: From a bowl by the Cabiri Painter (?), c. 400 B.C. British Museum. Drawing from Wolters and Bruns, Das Kabirenheiligtum bei Theben, I, pl. 29.
14. The banquet of the Cabir: From a bowl by the Cabiri Painter, c. 435 B.C. National Museum, Athens. Drawing from Wolters and Bruns, Das Kabirenheligtum bet Theben, I, pl. 29.
15. The phallic plough: From a Greek vase. Museo Archeologico, Florence. Drawing from Dieterich, Mutter Erde, p. 108.
16. The twirling-stick: From an Aztec hieroglyph-painting. Drawing courtesy of the Ciba Archives, Basel.
17. The first three labours of Heracles: Classical sarcophagus relief. Drawing by Gori in Inscriptiones antiquae graecae et romanae, 1783; from Robert, Die antiken Sarkophag-Reliefs, III, Part 1, Pl. XXXIX, fig. 128 (detail).
18. Priest with a fish-mask, representing Oannes: Relief, Nimrud. Drawing from Jeremias, Das Alte Testament im Lichte des alten Orients, fig. 2.
19. Androgynous divinity: Late Babylonian gem. Drawing from Lajard, Mémoire, p. 161.
20. Cybele and her son-lover Attis: Roman coin. Drawing from Roscher, Lexikon, II, Part 1, col. 1647.
21. Noah in the Ark: Enamelled altar of Nicholas of Verdun, 1186, Klosterneuburg, near Vienna. Drawing from Ehrenstein, Das Alte Testament im Bilde, Ch. IV, fig. 31, p. 106.
22. The Great Whore of Babylon: New Testament engraving by H. Burgkmaier; from Worringer, Die altdeutsche Buchillustration, fig. 88, p. 136.
23. Osiris in the cedar-coffin: Relief, Dendera, Egypt. Drawing from Budge, Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, I, p. 5.
24. Nut giving birth to the Sun: Relief, Egypt. Drawing from Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, II, p. 101.
25. The Divine Cow: From the tomb of Seti I, Egypt. Drawing from Erman, Die Religion der Agypter, p. 15.
26. The human cross: Woodcut from Agrippa of Nettesheim, De occulta philosophia, p. 157.
27. The life-giving crux ansata: Egypt. Drawing from Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, II, p. 24.
28. Wotan riding the eight-legged horse Sleipnir: Tombstone, Götland, Sweden, c. A.D. 1000. Drawing from Gray and McCulloch, The Mythology of All Races, II, Pl. VIII.
29. The Devil riding off with a witch: Woodcut from Olaus Magnus, Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, Rome, 1555; from de Givry, Le Musée des Sorciers, p. 207, fig. 164.
30. Quetzalcoatl devouring a man: From the Codex Borbonicus, Aztec, 16th century. Library of the Palais Bourbon, Paris. Drawing from Danzel, “Altmexi-kanische Symbolik,” p. 235.
31. The moon as the abode of souls: Chalcedon gem, 1st century B.C. Drawing from Chapouthier, Les Dioscures, fig. 67, p. 324.
32. The woman in the moon: Tattoo pattern, Haida Indians, Northwest America. Drawing from Danzel, Symbole, pl. 35.
33. Vidarr’s fight with the Fenris-Wolf: Relief from a cross, Churchyard of Gosforth, Cumberland. Rubbing from Gray and MacCulloch, Mythology of All Races, II, Pl. XXI.
34. Hecate of Samothrace: Gnostic gem. Engraving from Archäologische Zeitung, XV, 98–99 (1857), Atlas, Pl. XCIX.
35. The assault by the dragon: From Vitruvius, De architectura, Book I, p. 9.
36. Prajapati with the world-egg: India. Drawing from Müller, Glauben, Wissen und Kunst der alten Hindus, Pl. II, fig. 21.
37. Agathodaimon serpent: Antique gem. Engraving from Macarius, Abraxas, Pl. XV, fig. 63. Courtesy of the United States Geological Survey Library, Washington.
38. World plan: From an Aztec codex. Drawing from Danzel, Mexiko I, pl. 53.
39. The four corners of the zodiac: sun and moon in centre: Coptic. Woodcut from Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus.
40. The womb of the World Mother: Wooden bowl, Congo. Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg. Drawing from Danzel, Symbole, pl. 88.
41. Marduk fighting Tiamat: Assyrian cylinder seal. Drawing from Jeremias, Das Alte Testament, fig. 14.
42. The sacred tree of Attis: Relief from an altar to Cybele. Drawing from Gressmann, Die orientalischen Religionen, fig. 41, p. 99.
43. Antique cameo: Formerly in a museum of Florence. Drawing from Bachofen, Versuch über die Gräbersymbolik, Pl. II, fig. 1.
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