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The Israeli analytical psychologist Erich Neumann, whom C. G. Jung regarded as one of his most gifted students, devoted much of his later writing to the theme of creativity. This is the third volume of Neumann’s essays on that subject. Neumann found his examples not only in the work of writers and artists—William Blake, Goethe, Rilke, Kafka, Klee, Chagall, Picasso, Trakl—but as well in that of physicists, biologists, psychiatrists, and philosophers. 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—鈥渦nitary reality.鈥� 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—鈥淭he Psyche and the Transformation of the Reality Planes,鈥� 鈥淭he Experience of the Unitary Reality,鈥� 鈥淐reative Man and the `Great Experience,鈥欌�� 鈥淢an and Meaning,鈥� 鈥淧eace as the Symbol of Life,鈥� and 鈥淭he Psyche as the Place of Creation鈥�—all originated as lectures at the Eranos Conferences in the years 1952 to 1960.

Originally published in 1989.

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