A Flash of Golden Fire Volume 22: The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of the Modern Soul in Coleridge's ""the...

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Thomas Elsner

A Flash of Golden Fire Volume 22

The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of the Modern Soul in Coleridge's ""the Rime of the Ancient Mariner...

Thomas Elsner

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Texas A & M University Press
31 May 2025

Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought; Analytical & Jungian psychology; Clinical psychology; Magic, spells & alchemy

Series: Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology

In the early twentieth century C. G. Jung survived an intense encounter with the unconscious. He did this by giving expression to his inner world in the paintings and dialogues found in the Red Book. Yet Jung felt alone in this work, unable to find a precedent or cultural parallel, until he discovered alchemy. This ancient “protoscience” became the bridge Jung had been seeking between the remote past and the present. Yet between the downfall of alchemy in the eighteenth century and Jung’s Red Book in the twentieth, it seems that there was a gap in the tradition.

According to Jungian analyst and author Thomas Elsner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s great visionary poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is another link in that golden chain. In Elsner’s analysis, Coleridge’s nineteenth century night-sea journey can today be understood as a symbolic self-portrait of the collective unconscious, a self-portrait that, like the Red Book, finds its historical context and continuity in the alchemical tradition.

Continuing the highly esteemed works arising from the Fay Lecture Series, sponsored by the Jung Center, Houston, Elsner’s A Flash of Golden Fire: The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of the Modern Soul in Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” promises to further extend the understanding and appreciation of Jungian principles for practitioners, analysts, others interested in Jungian theory and practice, the psychological dimensions of Romantic poetry, and the evolution of Western consciousness.

By: Thomas Elsner
Imprint: Texas A & M University Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781648432286
ISBN 10: 164843228X
Series: Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 31 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas Elsner is a graduate of the Jung–Von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland. He serves as a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Study Center of Southern California, the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, and the editorial board of the journal Psychological Perspectives. He currently operates a private practice in Santa Barbara, California, and serves on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute.