The Place of Creation by Erich Neumann

The Place of Creation by Erich Neumann, published in 1989. “Confronting the problem of portraying men and women as creative beings, Neumann expanded the concepts of Jungian psychology with a more comprehensive definition of the archetype and a new concept—’unitary reality.” Whether or not humanity can be restored to health from its present situation as a self-endangered species depends, according to Neumann, on whether we can experience ourselves as truly creative, in touch with our own being and the world’s being. The six essays comprising this volume–“The Psyche and the Transformation of the Reality Planes,” “The Experience of the Unitary Reality,” “Creative Man and the `Great Experience,'” “Man and Meaning,” “Peace as the Symbol of Life,” and “The Psyche as the Place of Creation”–all originated as lectures at the Eranos Conferences in the years 1952 to 1960.” Hardcover with original jacket with light shelfwear to jacket.