Erich Neumann's 1949 Jungian masterwork — proposing that the development of human consciousness (from participation mystique through ego-consciousness to self) mirrors the development of world mythology — the most ambitious extension of Jungian archetypal theory.
Creates the recapitulation model of consciousness and mythology — Neumann argues that each stage of individual psychological development (uroboros, creation myth, dragon fight, transformation) corresponds to a stage in the history of mythological consciousness; the framework provides a developmental account missing from Jung's own writing.
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