Aion

Researches Into the Phenomenology of the Self

C.G. Jung

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780415045292
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317534303
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Aion is one of a number of major works that Jung wrote during his seventies that were concerned with the relations between psychology, alchemy and religion.

He is particularly concerned in this volume with the rise of Christianity and with the figure of Christ. He explores how Christianity came about when it did, the importance of the figure of Christ and the identification of the figure of Christ with the archetype of the Self. A matter of special importance to Jung in his seventies - the problem of opposites, particularly good and evil - is further discussed and the importance of the symbolism of the fish, which recurs as a symbol of both Christ and the devil, is examined.

As a study of the archetype of the self, Aion complements The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, which is also published in paperback.

INDEX

In entries relating to the books of the Bible, the numbers in parentheses indicate the chapter and verse(s) referred to.

A

Aaron, 107, 228

abaissement du niveau mental, 28, 202

Abarbanel, Isaac, 74, 107

Abba, Rabbi, 80

Abercius inscription, 73, 89n, 103, 115, 117

ablution, 187

Abot de Rabbi Nathan, 113n

Abraham, 59

Abraham ben Hiyya, Rabbi, 74

Abu Ma‘shar/Abu Mansor, see Albumasar

accentuation, moral, of opposites, 70

acetum, 160; see also vinegar

Achamoth, see Sophia

act of God, 25

Acts of the Apostles, (2 : 3), 135n; (7 : 43). 75n; (17 : 29, 30). 191n

Acts of Thomas, see Thomas, Acts of

Adam, 199; Adam/Eve syzygy, 254; carries Eve with him, 206; Christ and, 39, 197, 232; Eve’s birth from, 205f; first and second, 37; higher, 197, 214, 232, 237, 240, 248, 255; –, and lower, 227, 233; lower, 244, 255; male/female, 204; mystic, 36; original man/Anthropos/Archanthropos, 200, 203, 208, 218n; relation to creator and creatures, 189; as “rock,” 88, 208; second, 201, 204; and serpent, 233, 244f

Adamantius, dialogue of, 54n

Adamas (arch-man), 208

adamas (steel), 161

Adam Scotus, 100f

adaptation, weak, and emotion, 9

Adar, month of, 119

Adech, 213

Adler, Alfred, 165

Adonis, 121, 199

“Aenigmata ex Visione Arislei,” 126, 127n, 137–38, 142

Aeon: Autopator as, 191; birth from Kore, 104

aeon, Christian, ix

“aes Hermetis,” 156

Aesculapius, serpent of, 245n

affects, 9; and anima/animus, 16; feeling-tone, 33

Africa, 96, 175

agape, 90

Agathodaimon, 186; serpent as, 188, 230, 245n

ages, two, in pseudo-Clement, 55

aggregation, states of, 250f, 257

191

άγνωσία;, 190–92, 193n; God’s, 194

Ailly, Pierre d’, 75n, 76n 77n, 82, 83, 96, 97, 98n, 99

Aipolos, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• EDITORIAL NOTES
• TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
• Table of Contents
• LIST OF PLATES
• FOREWORD
• I. The Ego
• II. The Shadow
• III. The Syzygy: Anima and Animus
• IV. The Self
• V. Christ, a Symbol of the Self
• VI. The Sign of the Fishes
• VII. The Prophecies of Nostradamus
• VIII. The Historical Significance of the Fish
• IX. The Ambivalence of the Fish Symbol
• X. The Fish in Alchemy
• XI. The Alchemical Interpretation of the Fish
• XII. Background to the Psychology of Christian Alchemical Symbolism
• XIII. Gnostic Symbols of the Self
• XIV. The Structure and Dynamics of the Self
• XV. Conclusion
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX