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JUNG (CARL GUSTAV)
Aion. Untersuchungen zur Symbolgeschichte mit einem Beitrag von Dr. phil. Marie-Louise von Franz, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on front free endpaper ("Indem er du Symbolik aus den Augen verlor, hat der Protestantismus sich von seinern Wurzeln abgeschritten/ 4 Oct. 1951"), Zürich, Rascher, 1951

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JUNG (CARL GUSTAV)

Aion. Untersuchungen zur Symbolgeschichte mit einem Beitrag von Dr. phil. Marie-Louise von Franz, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on front free endpaper ("Indem er du Symbolik aus den Augen verlor, hat der Protestantismus sich von seinern Wurzeln abgeschritten/ 4 Oct. 1951"), plates, some pencil markings, withdrawn library stamp on reverse of title, publisher's orange cloth, lettered in gilt, vestiges of library label on spine, 8vo, Zürich, Rascher, 1951

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"By losing sight of symbolism, Protestantism has broken away from its roots": the first edition of Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, so inscribed by Jung in German in the year of publication. Aion was of the major works of his later years, and contains a discussion of the concept of symbolism and the Self, with particular reference to the figure of Christ and the forces of good and evil. The book was published as volume 8 of Jung's Collected Works.

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