Erich Neumann: The Origins and History of Consciousness and the Uroboric Mind
How did human consciousness emerge from the dark, oceanic depths of unconscious nature? Does individual psychological development mirror the evolutionary history of the entire human species? In his monumental masterwork The Origins and History of Consciousness , Israeli psychologist and philosopher Dr. Erich Neumann —described by Carl Jung as his most brilliant student—answered these questions by formulating an archetypal evolutionary history of the human mind. Neumann demonstrated that the psychological development of the individual (ontogeny) repeats the evolutionary history of human consciousness (phylogeny). By tracing archetypal stages from the ancient Uroboros to the emergence of ego autonomy, Neumann provided a master blueprint for understanding how consciousness is born, endangered, and matured. The Archetypal Stages of Consciousness Neumann mapped the evolutionary journey of human awareness through three major archetypal epochs: THE EVOLUTIONARY STAG...