Erich Neumann

German-Israeli Jungian analyst — student of Jung — author of The Origins and History of Consciousness and The Great Mother — one of the most important second-generation Jungians — who extended Jung's archetypal theory into a complete developmental psychology of consciousness.

Creates the most complete Jungian developmental psychology — The Origins and History of Consciousness proposes that individual psychological development (consciousness emerging from the unconscious) recapitulates the history of mythological consciousness, and that all world myths can be mapped onto this developmental arc.