Lectures on Jung's Aion

<p>Aion a major work from Jung’s later years has long been a source of fascination for a wide variety of scholars and thinkers. Presented here are two substantial commentaries concerning this rich and complex text by two important figures in Jung’s life and work: Barbara Hannah and Marie-Louise von Franz.  This is the first volume in a series edited by Emmanuel Kennedy-Xypolitas “Polarities in the Psyche” focusing on the broad theme of the opposites in the psyche. The next volume is “The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals.”</p><p>Hannah delivered these lectures at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich in 1957. Over the course of the lectures she addresses each chapter of Aion providing detail and in-depth analysis for selected passages and offering the reader suggestions for further sources and study. Well-paced and thoughtfully planned she scans the work from beginning to end bringing many subtle nuances to light.</p><p>In a private interview with Claude Drey conducted in her home in the spring of 1965 Marie-Louise von Franz takes a close look at chapter fourteen of Aion “The Structure and Dynamics of the Self.” Published here for the first time she offers a lively and free-flowing discussion of key sentences in the work.</p>