About this title: The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations. "This is a classic work in analytical psychology that offers crucial insights on the meaning of death symbolism (and its inevitably accompanying rebirth and ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: G. Braziller, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. remainder stripe on lower outer pages. crease on cover, tiny tear. no writing or markings. xxiv, 262 p. illus. 22 cm. Includes Illustrations. Bibliography: p.247-253. read more
Description: Very Good. Hardcover. New Ed. 2002, published in India. very good condition, clean and tight copy, light shelfwear to edges, NO marks or highlights. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Date Published: 1963
ISBN-13:9780691020648ISBN:0691020647
Description: Fine. Trade paperback, later printing of the first Princeton paperback (1990) edition, 362 pages including 18 drawings, plus 32 black-and-white photographs. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G. Braziller, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. Minor extremity wear, rubbing to DJ, uncut corner, page 69. Cloth over boards w/DJ, 262 p. Includes 32 pages of Illustrations, Index Writing in the tradition of Jungian analysis, Dr. Henderson explores the meanings and variations of this sense of death in myth and in contemporary experience. read more
Description: Very Good-/No Dust Jacket-As Issued. Second Printing. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cellophane beginning to peel slightly at cover edges; fore edge lightly soiled, handling wear, creasing, else VG. All pages clean and tight. Trade paperback. "Henderson and Oakes trace the images and patterns of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, the cycles of natur e, and universal human responses in art and dreaming. " read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Braziller, 1963 1st prtg, NY
Date Published: 1963
Description: Hardcover, original cloth. Ex-seminary library copy. Old paper label on spine, name stamped on title page, otherwise a clean, tight book in very good condition. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Braziller, Inc, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: VERY GOOD PLUS/Very Good. VERY GOOD PLUS IN VERY GOOD dustjacket; octavo; 262 pp (including index and references plus black & white plates/illustrations); mildly sunned, shallow chips top of spine, nicked tail of spine, small closed creased tears, rubbed; else clean tight copy in mylar. read more
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