Art and the Creative Unconscious

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"In any attempt to come closer to the personality of Leonardo da Vinci, it will be well to bear in mind the words of Jakob Burckhardt: "The colossal outlines of Leonardo's nature can never be more than dimly and distantly conceived.""

Description

Four essays on the psychological aspects of art. ---A study of Leonardo treats the work of art, and art itself, not as ends in themselves, but rather as instruments of the artist's inner situation. ---Two other essays discuss the relation of art to its epoch and specifically the relation of modern art to our own time. ---An essay on Chagall views this artist in the context of the problems explored in the other studies. Jordan B. Peterson: Erich Neumann is the most well-regarded student, analyst & distiller of Carl Jung's work.