The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness
Book Details
- Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
- Published : 2008
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 288
- Category :
Reprinting - Category 2 :
Jung and Analytical Psychology - Catalogue No : 21502
- ISBN 13 : 9781603440783
- ISBN 10 : 160344078X
Reviews and Endorsements
Marlan draws on not only clinical cases, but also literature such as Goethe's Faust and Dante's Inferno, the black art of Rothko and Reinhardt, and other inspirations to explore the influence of light and shadow on the fundamental structures of modern thought as well as the contemporary practice of analysis. He shows that the black sun accompanies not only the most negative of psychic experiences but also the most sublime. The Black Sun offers insight into modernity, the act of imagination, and the work of analysis in understanding depression, trauma, and transformation of the soul.A contribution to the understanding of alchemical psychology, this book draws on a postmodern sensibility to develop an original way to look at the black sun and helps us explore the unknown darkness conventionally called the Self.