The Metaphor of Light and Its Deconstruction in Jung’s Alchemical Vision

Ubuntu and the Individuation Process: Toward a Multicultural Analytical Psychology

“…The nightmare remains to the extent that the images of blackness and light, unconsciousness and consciousness, remain as binary opposites, mutually constituting each other. (It should be mentioned, however, that Stanton Marlan has used Jung's alchemical imagery and sensibility to demolish these oppositions; see Marlan, 1999Marlan, , 2005 If this nightmare of co-constituting binary oppositions has theoretical and psychological consequences, the political consequences are such that we-or, at least, I as a white South African-should weep.…”

Taking Wing and the Ordeal of Immersion

“…For his own account, and in order to accompany his patients most appropriately along their path, a er long immersing himself in the art and literature of the alchemists, the study of which he pioneered, Jung came to consider and, hence, to theorize that these long-term processes taking place on the scale of a lifetime were parts of the "individuation process" (Marlan 2005).…”