Salt and the Alchemical Soul

Edited and introduced by STANTON MARLAN, Salt and the Alchemical Soul is a collection of three papers from Freudian, Jungian, and Archetypal Psychology, providing excellent examples of different methods and styles of working with images. ERNEST JONES, in his essay “The Symbolic Significance of Salt in Folklore and Superstition,” attempts to apply psychoanalysis as a “new science” to an understanding of superstition. C. G. JUNG’s investigation into alchemy in “Sal” leads him to see salt as the principle of Eros at the base of the self. JAMES HILLMAN, using the image of salt, looks into the alchemical way of psychologizing, in “The Suffering of Salt.”