AION. Essays on the symbolism of the self

Carl Gustav Jung's (1875-1961) book "Aion" is one of the author's most important late works and develops the issues discussed in his collection of essays "Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious". Relying on a wide explication of Christian, Gnostic and alchemical symbolism, the author explains the archetype of mental wholeness, selfhood, historically connecting it with 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 of such an explanation is an attempt to help modern man deal with his inherent uprooting and worldview disorientation, which constantly threaten the danger of utopian psychoses.