Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 13: Alchemical Studies on JSTOR

My deceased friend, Richard Wilhelm, co-author of this book, sent me the text ofThe Secret of the Golden Flowerat a time that was crucial for my own work. This was in 1928. I had been investigating the processes of the collective unconscious since the year 1913, and had obtained results that seemed to me questionable in more than one respect. They not only lay far beyond everything known to “academic” psychology, but they also overstepped the bounds of any medical, purely personal, psychology. They confronted me with an extensive phenomenology to which hitherto known categories and methods could...

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