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Sobre los sueños y la muerte
¿Qué dice lo inconsciente del hombre, su mundo instintivo, ante la proximidad de la muerte? Se sabe que los sueños no se dejan manipular, que los sueños son, en cierto modo, la voz de la naturaleza en nosotros. Se plantea entonces la pregunta: ¿cómo la naturaleza misma nos prepara para la muerte?
Para responder a ésta y otras cuestiones, el libro de Marie-Louise von Franz se articula sobre cuatro puntos: 1) los sueños de muerte y experiencias personales relacionadas con ella, 2) ideas básicas de la psicología junguina que se refieren a la segunda mitad de la vida humana y a la muerte, 3) simbolismo de la muerte y resurrección en la tradición alquímica, 4) investigación parapsicológica.
Sobre los sueños y la muerte es, probablemente, el libro más importante que se ha escrito sobre esta materia. Es un libro que responde algunas preguntas y reaviva muchas otras. ¿Perdura la vida del difunto? En caso afirmativo, ¿sólo un período después de la muerte o más tiempo? ¿Qué es una existencia atemporal? ¿Qué hay de la hipótesis de la reencarnación? ¿Por qué muchas imágenes del más allá son trágicas y otras dichosas? ¿Qué significa la muerte parcial mencionada por Jung?
223 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
About the author
Marie-Louise von Franz
95 books901 followersMarie-Louise von Franz was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar.
Von Franz worked with Carl Jung, whom she met in 1933 and knew until his death in 1961. Jung believed in the unity of the psychological and material worlds, i.e., they are one and the same, just different manifestations. He also believed that this concept of the unus mundus could be investigated through research on the archetypes of the natural numbers. Due to his age, he turned the problem over to von Franz. Two of her books, Number and Time and Psyche and Matter, deal with this research.
Von Franz, in 1968, was the first to publish that the mathematical structure of DNA is analogous to that of the I Ching. She cites the reference to the publication in an expanded essay "Symbols of the Unus Mundus," published in her book Psyche and Matter. In addition to her many books, Von Franz recorded a series of films in 1987 titled The Way of the Dream with her student Fraser Boa.
Von Franz founded the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. In The Way of the Dream she claims to have interpreted over 65,000 dreams. Von Franz also wrote over 20 volumes on Analytical psychology, most notably on fairy tales as they relate to Archetypal or Depth Psychology, most specifically by amplification of the themes and characters. She also wrote on subjects such as alchemy, discussed from the Jungian, psychological perspective, and active imagination, which could be described as conscious dreaming. In Man and His Symbols, von Franz described active imagination as follows: "Active imagination is a certain way of meditating imaginatively, by which one may deliberately enter into contact with the unconscious and make a conscious connection with psychic phenomena."
Von Franz worked with Carl Jung, whom she met in 1933 and knew until his death in 1961. Jung believed in the unity of the psychological and material worlds, i.e., they are one and the same, just different manifestations. He also believed that this concept of the unus mundus could be investigated through research on the archetypes of the natural numbers. Due to his age, he turned the problem over to von Franz. Two of her books, Number and Time and Psyche and Matter, deal with this research.
Von Franz, in 1968, was the first to publish that the mathematical structure of DNA is analogous to that of the I Ching. She cites the reference to the publication in an expanded essay "Symbols of the Unus Mundus," published in her book Psyche and Matter. In addition to her many books, Von Franz recorded a series of films in 1987 titled The Way of the Dream with her student Fraser Boa.
Von Franz founded the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. In The Way of the Dream she claims to have interpreted over 65,000 dreams. Von Franz also wrote over 20 volumes on Analytical psychology, most notably on fairy tales as they relate to Archetypal or Depth Psychology, most specifically by amplification of the themes and characters. She also wrote on subjects such as alchemy, discussed from the Jungian, psychological perspective, and active imagination, which could be described as conscious dreaming. In Man and His Symbols, von Franz described active imagination as follows: "Active imagination is a certain way of meditating imaginatively, by which one may deliberately enter into contact with the unconscious and make a conscious connection with psychic phenomena."
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June 12, 2025
Excelente. No solo habla acerca de cómo diversas culturas se han acercado a la muerte, si no que también cómo ñel más allá se ha comunicado con nosotros a través de los sueños. Gran libro.
November 30, 2024
Segunda vez que lo leo, segunda vez que me voy sabiendo que estoy donde debo de estar.
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