{"product_id":"the-art-of-the-self-the-blue-book-of-eranos-founder-olga-frobe-kapteyn-paperback","title":"The Art of the Self: The Blue Book of Eranos Founder Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRiccardo Bernardini\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 The unpublished anthology of her artworks, which we refer to today as the \u003cem\u003eBlue Book\u003c\/em\u003e, can be traced back to two distinct periods.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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 456\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.92 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53008584016179,"sku":"9781685036188","price":74.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/3msZxT59-C9781685036188.webp?v=1769677390","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-art-of-the-self-the-blue-book-of-eranos-founder-olga-frobe-kapteyn-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}