Pre-Order today! Paperback version – Volume 3 of The Collected Works of  Marie-Louise von Franz -releasing  January 4!

 

Pre-orders are now available.

The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz is a 28-volume Magnum Opus from one of the leading minds in Jungian Psychology. Volume 3 turns to the Maiden’s Quest within fairytales.

The maiden/heroine navigates a complicated maze of inner and outer relationships as she builds a bridge to the unconscious. The heroine contends with the animus in many forms like a devouring and incestuous father, demonic groom, the beautiful prince, an androgenous mother, a cold dark tower, and through conflict with the evil stepmother.

Dangers and pitfalls await her as the conscious feminine strives to make connections with the unconscious masculine. The maiden is the undeveloped feminine and the promised fruit of her struggle with the animus is the coniunctio. Volume 3 is a masterwork of cross-cultural scholarship, penetrating psychological insight, and a strikingly illuminating treatise. With her usual perspicacity and thoroughness, von Franz gathers countless fairytale motifs revealing a myriad of facets to the maiden’s quest.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Bluebeard
Chapter 2. The Pastor’s Wife
Chapter 3. The Woman Who Became A Spider
Chapter 4. Sedna
Chapter 5. The Girl and the Skull
Chapter 6. The Two Sisters
Chapter 7. Mother Holle
Chapter 8. Ingebjörg and the Good Stepmother
Chapter 9. The Wages of the Stepdaughter and the House Daughter
Chapter 10. Little Fatima with the Moon Forehead
Chapter 11. Snowflake
Chapter 12. Sleeping Beauty — Little Briar Rose
Chapter 13. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Chapter 14. Rapunzel
Chapter 15. Cinderella
Chapter 16. The Magic Horse
Chapter 17. Hans Wunderlich
Chapter 18. Allerleirauh, All-Kinds-Of-Fur
Chapter 19. The White Bride and the Black Bride
Chapter 20. The Goose Girl
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index of Authors
Index of Fairytales

Coming in 2022!

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MARIE-LOUISE VON FRANZ: 

FAIRYTALES, VISIONS, AND THE AFTERLIFE

with Dr. Steven Buser and the Pacifica Graduate Institute

February 17, 24; March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2022 (Thursdays)
2-4 p.m. (Pacific Time) via Zoom

Areas covered in the course will include:

• An overview of von Franz’s life and work
• A history and overview of the evolving project of her collected works.
• A deep dive into her work on fairytales, particularly her early writings.
• A method for the interpretation of fairytales.
• The four primary archetypal figures in fairytales.
• Primary male and female tetralogies.
• The hero and heroine’s journey in fairytales.
• The Visions of Niklaus von Flue and Perpetua.
• The mysteries of death, life after death, and the diamond body.

Volume 2 – 

The Hero’s Journey

Volume 2 – The Hero’s Journey is about the great adventure that leads to a cherished and difficult to obtain prize. In these fairytales, the Self is often symbolized as that treasured prize and the hero’s travails symbolize the process of individuation. In its many manifestations, the hero embodies the emerging personality. “In the conscious world, the hero is only one part of the personality—the despised part—and through his attachment to the Self in the unconscious is a symbol of the whole personality.”

Volume 1 – 

The Profane and Magical Worlds

Volume 1 – Both paperback and hardcover – are now available. Fairytales, like myths, provide a cultural and societal backdrop that helps the human imagination narrate the meaning of life’s events. The remarkable similarities in fairytale motifs across different lands and cultures inspired many scholars to search for the original homeland of fairytales. While peregrinations of fairytale motifs occur, the common root of fairytales is more archetypal than geographic. A striking feature of fairytales is that a sense of space, time, and causality is absent. This situates them in a magical realm, a land of the soul, where the most interesting things happen in the center of places like Heaven, mountains, lakes, and wells.

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