Jung’s Alchemical Philosophy: Psyche and the Mercurial Play of Image and Idea (ISSN)

Descending into his own depths he finds images that, in a sense, have preceded him. It is a descent into human ancestry.

We have already discussed Jung's idea that in alchemy, when light and darkness and male and female come together, the filius philosophorum is born.

what is happening in this dream follows Jung's observation in the Mysterium-that when consciousness descends into the unconscious, it at first has frightening results."y To begin with, it produces poisonous animals such as dragons, serpents, and scorpions.

alchemy has placed the death experience at the heart of the alchemical process. Without entering into the nigredo and undergoing the mortificatio experience, no transformation is possible.