{"product_id":"alchemy-in-the-anthropocene-new-horizons-for-an-ancient-psychology","title":"Alchemy in the Anthropocene: New Horizons for an Ancient Psychology","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eAlchemy in the Anthropocene \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSubtitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e New Horizons for an Ancient Psychology\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSubject Classification: \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eHistory, Psychology, Philosophy\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBIC Classification: \u003c\/strong\u003eHB, HP, JM \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBISAC Classification: \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eOCC019000, PHI013000, PSY045060\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Hardback, Paperback, eBook\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 02 Oct 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN (Hardback):\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e978-1-83711-559-4 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN (eBook):\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e978-1-83711-560-0 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN (Paperback): \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e978-1-83711-561-7\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo view a sample of the book, please click \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:\" underline data-mce-style=\"text-decoration:\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehere\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ee-books available for libraries from \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProquest\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEBSCO\u003c\/strong\u003e\n \n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewith non-institutional availability from \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\nGooglePlay\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor larger orders, or orders where you require an invoice, contact us  \u003cspan id=\"cloak8074a48c555b85c31ec4347354a45e96\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\nadmin@ethicspress.com\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eMedieval and Renaissance European alchemy, peaking at the time of Shakespeare, is a heavily coded symbolic system. There are two historical streams to alchemy. First, as a misguided literal attempt to convert base metals into gold that acted as a precursor to modern chemistry. Second, as an abstract symbol system whose development and study aimed at gaining higher consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCarl Jung single-handedly recovered this alchemical tradition for modern times by treating alchemy as a coded symbol system of psychological growth and enlightenment, tapping into archetypes. This book offers a third way between matter and symbol – alchemy as embodied metaphor, transcending the literal and engaging the poetic. This approach differs from that of Jung, who turned a materialist alchemy into an abstract psychological code. In the approach taken in this book, alchemy offers an education into an imagination of matter offering a framework for contemporary living, where a language of substances replaces abstract terms describing psychological life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut alchemy has other meanings and purposes – for example, as a once outlawed activity promising jail sentences for practitioners, alchemy is essentially political. It restores power not just to citizens to resist orthodoxies, but also to material life otherwise seen as inanimate. Giving meaning to the natural (material) world echoes indigenous traditions that see this world as animated and populated by unseen but felt energies. Such energies are the lifeblood of imagination and creativity as the poetic impulse in humanity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe Anthropocene is an emergent age of ecological anxiety. We need languages and symbol and sign systems to effectively navigate and make meaning of this unfolding age.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiography\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor(s):\u003c\/span\u003e \n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlan Bleakley is an Emeritus Professor at Plymouth University, United Kingdom.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis title is currently being reviewed. 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