Some Archetypal Foundations of the Notion of Time
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Marie-Louise von Franz’s unpublished 1978 Panarion Conference lecture on the archetypal roots of time: time in creation myths, Aztec mythology and the I Ching, cyclical time in astrology, and the link to Jung’s dynamic Self and synchronicity.
Marie-Louise von Franz
Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998) was a Swiss Jungian analyst and scholar, and Jung's closest collaborator. Born in Munich, she met Jung in 1933 at eighteen and worked with him for nearly thirty years, especially on alchemy, translating Greek and Latin texts for his late works. She held a doctorate in classical philology and helped found the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1948. Her many books cover fairy tales, alchemy, dreams, number and time, and psyche and matter, among them Number and Time (1970), Alchemy (1980) and On Dreams and Death (1984).
Parts
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Part 1: Time in Myth: Aztec Mythology and the I Ching, Part 1
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First part of von Franz's unpublished 1978 Panarion lecture, following her book Number and Time. Against the view that the unconscious is simply timeless, she shows that creation myths contain a notion of time, and examines Aztec mythology and the I Ching, where time arises from a succession of divine figures.
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Part 2: Cyclical Time, the Dynamic Self and Synchronicity, Part 2
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Second part: the cyclical renewal of archetypal images in Western astrology and ancient ideas of time, the apparent mathematical regularity of their rise and fall, and, in conclusion, the link between this qualitative, psychic time and Jung's dynamic Self in Aion and synchronicity.