Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self

Carl Gustav Jung's (1875–1961) book Aion is one of the author's most important later works and develops the issues explored in his collection of essays Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Drawing on a broad explication of Christian, Gnostic, and alchemical symbolism, the author explains the archetype of psychic wholeness, selfhood, historically linking it to the figure of Christ, who, in his opinion, is a symbol of all-encompassing wholeness during the Christian Aeon, synchronistic with the Great Moon of Pisces. The main motive for such an explanation is an attempt to help modern man cope with his inherent uprooting and worldview disorientation, which constantly threaten him with the danger of utopian psychoses. The book will be interesting not only for psychologists and psychotherapists, but also for philosophers, religious scholars, anthropologists, art historians, and anyone who seeks to understand the foundations of our existence that are often hidden from view.