Study lib. Upload document Create flashcards. Flashcards Collections. Documents Last activity. Add to Add to collection s Add to saved. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1. Grail —Romances—History and knighthood 4. Psychology in Legends. Quests Expeditions 5. G7J : in literature.
Grail Title. Rather, the material be considered here from the standpoint of G. Jung's depth psychology. Like alchemy and its curious symbolic productions, these poetic fantasy creations and their symbolism are also illustrative of deep-seated, unconprovided by the Grail stories will scious psychic processes that are still of the greatest significance, for they prepare the way to, and anticipate, the religious problem of modern man.
The reason was that Mrs. Jung had been engaged on the Grail legend for thirty years and was planning an extensive publication on the subject. Her labours were cut short by her death in when, in response to Professor Jung's wish, I undertook to bring her work to a conclusion. In order that the completed work might be as homogeneous as possible, I have continued the interpretation from the point at which it was interrupted, and I have based my work, in the first instance, on the material collected and sifted by Mrs.
In order to satisfy the scientific prerequisites of an interpretation along the lines of Jungian psychology, and so tions, comprehensibly to a wider pubHc which is not familiar with its concepts, it would have been necessary to give extensive information on the history of symbols and of as to describe these religion, with historical digressions in connection with each symbolic motif, as well as practical psychological examples.
Considering the enormous profusion of motifs in the Grail legend this — and nearly all of them are of prime importance would have produced a work of monstrous proportions, through which even the most industrious of readers would scarcely have been able to thread his way. There remains no other alternative, therefore, but to presume an acquaintance with Jung's work and especially with his book Aion, which throws light on basic problems of our Christian aeon. I wish to take this opportunity to extend my warmest thanks to Miss Andrea Dykes, whose great zeal, devotion and arduous labour have alone produced this speedily completed, yet exact and excellent translation, and also to Fraulein Dr.
