{"product_id":"the-art-of-the-self-riccardo-bernardini-9781685036188","title":"The Art of the Self: The Blue Book of Eranos Founder Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOlga Fröbe-Kapteyn (1881-1962) was the pioneering founder of the famous Eranos Conferences, which since the early 1930s have attracted to Ascona (Switzerland) some of the most influential scholars of the 20\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003csup\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e and 21st centuries and made an extraordinary contribution to world intellectual history. The unpublished anthology of her artworks, which we refer to today as the \u003cem\u003eBlue Book\u003c\/em\u003e, can be traced back to two distinct periods. The first phase was essential for a series of \"Meditation Plates,\" painted between c. 1926 and 1934, and particularly during her collaboration with theosophist Alice Ann Bailey (1880-1949). The second phase concerns a collection of \"Visions,\" drawn between 1934 and 1938. These were the crucial years of her enduring intellectual relationship with psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), who was one of the main sources of inspiration at Eranos and provided the impetus for the creation of the Eranos Archive for Research in Symbolism. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConvinced that \"the deepest things in human life ... can only be expressed in images,\" Fröbe-Kapteyn documented in her \u003cem\u003eBlue Book\u003c\/em\u003e the forms of imagination of a creative and independent woman. Because of the care with which she had drawn, composed, and preserved it, Fröbe-Kapteyn perhaps hoped that her \u003cem\u003eBlue Book\u003c\/em\u003e would survive her and also allow future generations to rediscover and make it their own, as a special testament to that endless search for the Self, at once personal and universal, that Jung would theorize with the idea of the \"individuation process.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword (Fabio Merlini) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface (Murray Stein) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditorial Note \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn's Interest in Art and Symbolism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn's Iconographic Corpus \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Artistic Itineraries from Monte Verità to Eranos \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword (Her Royal Highness Princess Irene of The Netherlands) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of names \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Riccardo Bernardini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 168503618X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781685036188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Chiron Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.92d","brand":"Riccardo Bernardini","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965548970239,"sku":"9781685036188","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_05ff2946-5bf2-415e-83bc-e9a5e74b2bff.jpg?v=1767281297","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-art-of-the-self-riccardo-bernardini-9781685036188","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}