Independent twentieth-century magic
Herbert Silberer
Austrian psychoanalyst in Freud's circle who read an alchemical parable as a description of inner processes, thirty years before Jung's Psychology and Alchemy.
- Dates
- 28 February 1882 – 12 January 1923
- Dating
- documented dates
Place in the tradition
The first sustained psychological reading of alchemy, and the one this study quotes, because Jung's is still in copyright.
a note on the record
History and later legend
His work was taken up more by Jung than by the Freudians; he died by suicide in 1923.
the written record
Principal works
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1914; English 1917
Problems of Mysticism and its Symbolism
A psychoanalytic reading of an alchemical parable, later retitled Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts.
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