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- ISBN 9780367862671
- Weight: 780g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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How did humans develop the capacity for symbolic imagination?
In this ground-breaking book, Warren Colman provides a reformulation of archetypal symbols as emergent from humans’ embodied and affective engagement with their social and material environment. Beginning with the oldest known figurative image in the world, the 40,000-year-old Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel in Germany, he traces the emergence of symbolic imagination through the origins of language, the growth of human sociality and co-operation, and the creative use of material objects, from the earliest stone tools through the cave paintings and figures of Upper Paleolithic Europe and beyond. This leads to a consideration of how the imaginal world of the spirit may have come into being, not as separate from the material world but through active participation within a world alive with meaning.
Warren Colman is a training and supervising analyst at the Society of Analytical Psychology in London and a former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. He teaches, lectures, and supervises internationally and has published many articles on the theory and practice of couple psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and analytical psychology.
