The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann - WordSea
The Origins and History of Consciousness
by Erich Neumann
The Origins and History of Consciousness is an important and wide-ranging interpretation of the relations between psychology and mythology. The author shows that the individual consciousness passes through the same archetypal stages of development that marked the history of human consciousness as a whole. He draws upon the full range of world myth in the illustration of his thesis, and his account makes unexpectedly fresh and lively reading in a field not always notable for these qualities.
The Origins and History of Consciousness is an important and wide-ranging interpretation of the relations between psychology and mythology. The author shows that the individual consciousness passes through the same archetypal stages of development that marked the history of human consciousness as a whole. He draws upon the full range of world myth in the illustration of his thesis, and his account makes unexpectedly fresh and lively reading in a field not always notable for these qualities.