Art and the Creative Unconscious - Erich Neumann

Erich Neumann was a renowned psychologist, philosopher, and writer. Born in Berlin in 1904 to a Jewish family, Neumann spent his formative years and education in Germany. He received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1927 and a medical doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1933. Fearing the turn the German government was taking, Neumann and his wife Julie moved to Tel Aviv in 1934, where he practiced analytical psychology until his death in 1960. Neumann ascribed to the Jungian school of thought and was a frequent lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute in Switzerland. Other works by Neumann include The Origins and History of Consciousness (1949), The Great Mother (1955), and Depth Psychology and a New Ethic (1949). The work listed here, Art and the Creative Unconscious, consists of four essays on the psychological aspects of art. A study of Leonardo da Vinci examines the expression of the Mother Archetype in his work and the way in which art was an inst