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A NEW
OPPORTUNITY: ARAS Online
Join
ARAS Online to access the entire ARAS
archive over the Internet.
Tax-deductible memberships begin at just $100 per year.
Memberships
can also be given as gifts to others.
Through ARAS
Online, you will be able to access the entire content of the two
magnificent ARAS publications:
Archetypal Symbolism
and The Body. These
books cost $300 when purchased on their own.
The
Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS) is a pictorial archive
of mythological, ritual and symbolic images from all over the world and
from all epochs of human history, Paleolithic to Modern.
The
collection illustrates the universality from ancient to modern times of
archetypal themes produced by the symbol-making process operating within
the human psyche.
Images
are selected for the Archive because they are both archaic, ie, from the
primordial mythic imagination of a particular people, and typical, ie,
they show significant cross-cultural parallels.
There
are ARAS collections connected with the Jung Institutes in New York and
Los Angeles as well. The San Francisco ARAS collection contains over
13,000 photographic images, each cross-indexed, individually mounted, and
accompanied by a full scholarly commentary establishing its historical and
cultural context.
Traditions represented include the Prehistoric Period, the Ancient Near
East including Egypt, the Classical Worlds, the Christian West, and India.
Users of ARAS include artists and designers, students, scholars in the
humanities, as well as analysts and individuals tracing dream imagery and
seeking deep common linkages which transcend nation and ideology.
Examples of the kind of images in the collection can be seen by consulting
the website of the national association of ARAS archives,
www.aras.org
The collection is located at the Institute and is open to the public by
appointment with the Curator, Jungian analyst Dr. Patricia Sohl:
415.771.8055, ext 214 or aras@sfjung.org.
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