8 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American Jungian analyst who wrote Ego and Archetype, The Anatomy of the Psyche, and The Christian Archetype — providing the most detailed Jungian analysis of Christian symbolism (particularly the Mass and Christ as a symbol of the Self) and the most precise formulation of the ego-Self relationship.
Jin dynasty Daoist master who synthesized Confucian ethics with Daoist alchemy in the Baopuzi, arguing that immortality is achievable through alchemical practices and moral cultivation.
English mathematician and physicist — who invented calculus (simultaneously with Leibniz), formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, demonstrated that white light is composed of a spectrum, and built the first practical reflecting telescope — Warden/Master of the Royal Mint in his later career.
American Jungian analyst who was a student of Marie-Louise von Franz and has written on fairy tale analysis and alchemy in the Jungian tradition — extending the von Franz methodology of Jungian fairy tale interpretation.
Swiss Jungian analyst who met Jung at 18 and remained his closest intellectual collaborator — developing his work on fairy tales (the purest expressions of archetypal patterns), alchemy, number symbolism, and the psychological interpretation of myths — and whose interpretive work is the most accessible entry to deep Jungian analysis.
German-American psychologist who was Timothy Leary's colleague at Harvard — co-writing The Psychedelic Experience with Leary and Alpert — and who went on to explore consciousness transformation, shamanism, and ecological spirituality, founding the Green Earth Foundation.
American Jungian analyst who wrote The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness — a study of darkness as a positive psychological principle in alchemy, art, and Jungian psychology — and who is associated with the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.
B. J. Dobbs's 1975 scholarly study of Isaac Newton's alchemical manuscripts, demonstrating that Newton devoted as much intellectual effort to alchemy as to physics — complicating the conventional image of Newton as the paradigm of rationalist science.