Opus of Alchemy
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A single unpublished lecture reading the Emerald Tablet of Hermes as a symbolic summary of the alchemical opus and of individuation.
Edward F. Edinger
Edward F. Edinger (1922–1998) was an American psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, widely regarded as one of the most important interpreters of Jung. Trained in medicine at Yale, he worked in analysis with Esther Harding and was a founding member and later president of the C.G. Jung Foundation in New York. In 1979 he moved to Los Angeles, where he was a senior analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute and gave the lecture series recorded here. His books include Ego and Archetype (1972), The Creation of Consciousness (1984), Anatomy of the Psyche (1985) and many volumes drawn from his lectures.
Parts
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Part 1: The Opus of Alchemy: The Emerald Tablet of Hermes
1:01:55
Edinger explains that he first offered a talk on the Emerald Tablet of Hermes to San Francisco, which preferred something more elementary, so Los Angeles gets it. He sets the scene with Jung's late research into alchemy, from Psychology and Alchemy to Mysterium Coniunctionis, quoting the memoirs: 'analytical psychology coincided in a most curious way with alchemy'. Then a commentary on the Tablet's precepts.