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.
Develops the Jungian understanding of darkness as positive psychological principle — the black sun (sol niger) in alchemy represents the creative darkness out of which new life emerges — arguing that Western culture's identification of light with good and darkness with evil represents a psychological impoverishment that alchemy and depth psychology correct.
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