📘: | Conversations with Marie-Louise von Franz on Synchronicity and Numbers: Insights and Amplifications (Link active Oct. 8, 2025)

Edited by Christophe Le Mouël, Ph.D. and Robin Mindell

This book centers on conversations with Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz that took place between October 1993 and January 1998 and had two primary objectives. First, to record temporarily unexplored ideas that von Franz was no longer able to pursue due to her advanced age and affliction with Parkinsonism. Second, she wished to hand over specific tasks and proposals to posterity for further development. Conversations is the result of those efforts, including many hours of recordings selected, transcribed, edited, and presented in these pages.

214 pages with graphic illustrations, paperback

Inner City Books, Oct. 8, 2025

📗: | Windows on Eternity: The Paintings of Peter Birkhäuser

By Eva Wertenschlag-Birkhäuser

Including “Peter Birkhäuser – A Modern Artist Who Strikes a New Path” and “Funeral Address for Peter Birkhäuser” by Marie-Louise von Franz

Many of the dream images painted by Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser (1911-76) portray the big problems of our time, as experienced one individual: our divisiveness, possession by unconscious factors, suffering from the loss of religious values, the “unknown God” knocking at the door and wanting to enter, our inability to understand evil, the world of the feminine yearning for redemption, and so on.

Because the paintings of Birkhäuser come from the deep wells of dreams and give them authentic form, they are mirrors of healing processes in the soul. Marie-Louise von Franz said of Birkhäuser’s work: “His paintings are not depictions of his own problems, but rather seek to reveal what is taking place in the depths of the collective unconscious in all of the people of our time. Because of this, they are not easy to decipher: they are simply there, and wish to be experienced.”

Peter Birkhäuser’s paintings frequently give form to overwhelming contents from the collective unconscious whose sense only becomes apparent when seen in the context of the spiritual predicament of our times. Birkhäuser was uniquely sensitive to the subliminal issues of the age. His whole career demonstrated that his special calling as an artist was to dedicate his abilities to a greater creative spirit and use his art to reveal, not only the crisis and infirmity of our times, but more importantly the reactions and healing impulses of the autonomous psyche. His pictures act as mirrors of the soul, where things hidden within us and our age become visible. In the major themes of the paintings we can observe something resembling a collective process of individuation. This is religious art, a manifestation of an image of God originating in the unconscious, striving to become real as part of a new consciousness. The artist’s own personal individuation process becomes a gestation in paintings that circumscribe the birth of a new myth.

This book is an attempt to track down the meanings of the mysteries in the work of Peter Birkhäuser. Included are 53 reproductions of paintings by the artist.

200 pages, 53 color plates, hardcover

Daimon Verlag, 2009

📙: | Light From the Darkness: Paintings by Peter Birkhäuser

Commentary by Marie-Louise von Franz

Edited by Kaspar Birkhäuser and Eva Wertenschlag-Birkhäuser

This beautiful collection of Peter Birkhäuser paintings first became a book in 1981, not long after the death of Peter Birkhäuser. It had originally been planned and designed by the artist himself. At the time, Marie-Louise von Franz familiarized herself with the paintings he had selected and some of his dream diaries, and she formulated brief, illuminating commentaries, which reveal the archetypal dimensions of what can be seen. They might be described as poems.

In this new bilingual English/German edition, the book has been expanded to include additional paintings and Marie-Louise von Franz’s 1964 article, “Peter Birkhäuser – A Modern Artist who Strikes a New Path.”

160 pages with 38 full-page color illustrations on art paper, hardcover

Daimon Verlag, 2025 (New Edition)

📗: | Der Rote Faden: Malerei und Grafik von Peter Birkhäuser

By Eva Wertenschlag-Birkhäuser and Kaspar Birkhäuser

Der Künstler Peter Birkhäuser (1911–1976) war ein bekannter Basler Grafiker und Plakat­gestalter. Weniger bekannt war bislang sein Wirken als Maler. Seine Malerei umfasst ein überraschendes Werk, in dem nicht nur seine innere, seelische und geistige Welt zum Ausdruck gebracht wird, sondern auch eine beeindruckende Dimension kollektiv bedeutsamer Inhalte, die ins Bewusstsein drängen.

Dieser Aspekt seiner Kunst sprengt den biographischen und lokalen Rahmen und macht sein Werk zu einer gültigen Zeitaussage. Der rote Faden enthält neben Ausschnitten aus dem grafischen Oeuvre über hundert Abbildungen von Gemälden des Künstlers; mehr als 50 davon werden hier erstmals veröffentlicht.

248 pages with full-color original illustrations, hardcover

Published in German

Daimon Verlag, 2013

📔: | Jung and Alchemy: A Path to Individuation

By Murray Stein, Ph.D.

This book consists of a series of six lectures on C.G. Jung’s work with alchemy. It is introductory, and it is interpretive. Why did Jung regard the study of alchemy as an essential piece of his life’s work? What does alchemy add to his psychological understanding of the human being and the individuation process? These are questions addressed in this work for the purpose of opening for the general student of analytical psychology the treasures of Jung’s insights as developed in his alchemical writings.

150 pages; hardcover, paperback, and Kindle

Chiron Publications, Jul. 24, 2025

📕: | Jung and the Epic of Transformation, Volume 2: Goethe’s “Faust” as a Text of Transformation

By Paul Bishop, Ph.D.

For Goethe, his Faust was his “main business” (Hauptgeschäft), an opus magnum or divinum within the framework of which his whole life was so enacted. Or so believed C.G. Jung, who described himself as “haunted by the same dream,” as “launched upon a single enterprise” which was his “main business,” and someone in whom Faust had “struck a chord and pierced through” in a way he could not but regard as “personal.” In Goethe’s “Faust” as a Text of Transformation, Paul Bishop considers the significance for Jung of this iconic work of German literature which embraces the periods of Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism, and Romanticism, and constitutes a major work in the German epic of transformation. In Parts One and Two of this dramatic poem (or poetic drama), Faust undergoes a series of transformations — as do those readers who, as Jung did, open themselves up to the transformational power of Goethe’s work.

This is the second volume in a series of books, examining key texts in German literature and thought that were, in Jung’s own estimation or by scholarly consent, highly influential on his thinking. The project of Jung and the Epic of Transformation consists of four titles, sequentially arranged to explore great works from a Jungian perspective and in turn to highlight their importance for interpreting The Red Book.

450 pages; hardcover and paperback

Chiron Publications, Oct. 1, 2025