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Carl Jung was a famous psychologist, who founded the ideas of an extroverted and introverted personality, archetypes, and collective unconscious. He dabbled in many other areas such as religion, mythology, and alchemy, while still including his findings in psychology. Carl Jung spent most of the end of his career studying alchemy and incorporating his psychological views into the subject. His rapid interest of alchemy came from a vivid dream about an ancient library of old books. Some of his ideas were that he thought the contents of the alchemists’ psyche became unconsciously projected onto the materials and he also believed that the alchemical language that was used during instances of making the philosopher’s stone or alchemy in general, was an expression of the psychological processes. Carl Jung’s claim that alchemy consisted of psychic processes rather than chemical experiments accurately describes the account of alchemical experiences.

Many famous alchemists at that time such as Nicholas Flamel and John Dee would strongly disagree with the remarks made by Jung. Saying that alchemy was mostly psychological was very controversial and would falsify their accomplishments. Although these alchemists thought they were turning gold into silver, they were unaware that their mind was doing the transformations.

Carl Jung came into the world in 1875 in the country of Switzerland and he passed in 1961. He was a very famous psychologist who founded the habits of analytic psychology in response to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. He had many finding that still affect today such as extroverted and introverted personality types, archetypes, and collective unconscious. Jung was a very lonely child and had a rather ...

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...t what could happen. They seek to explore it and supposedly put their unconscious into the darkness to further illuminate the alchemical experience. In reality, their own psychic background is projected and that is what is explained in the encounters. The alchemists were fooled into thinking they could actually change base metals into gold substances. The things the alchemists said and the symbols they used were really a part of the process called individuation. Jung called this “circumambulation of self” or a movement toward center or finding “self.” The road to individuation is shown as constant conflict of opposites which turns into psychic energy. In order to succeed individuation, you must bring the opposing forces into to union. This union in alchemy is called the coniunctio. The alchemical stage of nigreto or blackness correlates with depression in patients.