Title: Spring 1977.
Contributing authors: Russell A. Lockhart, Selma Hyman, David L. Hart, Harry L. Wilmer, James Hillman, Rudolf Ritsema, Murray Stein, Karl Kerényi, Charles Boer, Peter Kugler, Wolfgang Giegerich, Stephanie de Voogd, C. G. Jung, Aniela Jaffé, Geoffrey Hargreaves.
Series: Spring: An Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought.
Publisher: Sprinkle Publications, Zürich, Switzerland.
Publication year: 1977.
Format: Vintage trade paperback / softcover volume.
Genre/Subject: Archetypal psychology, analytic psychology, mythology, animal and dream symbolism, depth psychotherapy, psychology of cancer and disease, I Ching studies.
Narrative type and audience: Scholarly and clinical nonfiction essays written for adult readers interested in Jungian and archetypal approaches to psyche and culture.
Language: English; original language English.
Country of origin: Switzerland.
Physical details: Black-and-white pictorial softcover featuring Michelangelo's self-portrait as Nicodemus from the Florence Cathedral Pietà on the front, plain white rear cover, and standard-size glued binding with text-only interior pages.
Contents overview: Opens with a section on dreams and illness, including "Cancer in Myth and Disease," "Death-in-Life — Life-in-Death: Spontaneous Process in a Cancer Patient," "Dreams of Escape from Bewitchment," and "Epic Dreams and Heroic Ego."
Additional sections: Includes excerpts from works in progress such as James Hillman's "An Inquiry into Image" and Rudolf Ritsema's study of the 52nd hexagram in the I Ching, along with new papers and translations on Hera, memory and forgetting, mythical realism, and the psychology of psychology.
Jungian materials: Features C. G. Jung's notes on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, reflections on Jung and the Eranos conferences by Aniela Jaffé, a postscript to The Visions Seminars, and essays on Jung as psychologist and philosopher.
Final section: Concludes with Geoffrey Hargreaves's essay "A Shape for Literary History" in the Current and Controversial section, linking archetypal perspectives to literary criticism.
ISBN: 0-88214-012-4.
Special attributes: Original 1977 issue in the long-running Spring annual series, bringing together leading Jungian analysts and scholars on dreams, myth, image, and the symbolic dimensions of illness and cultural life.
Condition details: see condition field for full description of cover, pages, and binding.
Condition: Black-and-white pictorial soft covers show moderate shelf and handling wear with edge rubbing, a few surface scratches, and light corner creases; the plain white rear cover has scattered age spots, faint smudges, and a small crease near the lower edge. Spine shows mild rubbing but no heavy creases, and the binding remains tight and square with all pages firmly attached. Page edges and margins are evenly age-toned with a few tiny foxing spots, and there are several light pencil checkmarks in the contents and a few discreet margin marks, but no ink writing or highlighting; text is complete and fully readable throughout.