Jung on Alchemy

Jung spent decades convinced that medieval alchemists, while claiming to turn lead into gold, were really mapping the transformation of the human psyche. This selection gathers his central writings on the subject, with an introduction by Nathan Schwartz-Salant that makes a notoriously dense body of work approachable. It is the clearest single entry point to the strand of Jung that most influenced artists. Guillermo del Toro says Jung and alchemy have been crucial to his creative and thought process.