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Light From the Darkness (The Art of Peter Birkhauser) book with commentary/interpretations by MLvF in print 1980 ISBN: 0-8176-1190-8 Links:

"I experience a power within myself which is not the same as my conscious ego. It has forced me to adopt a path quite foreign to my conscious attitude, a path which totally contradicted my will and everything I considered important. Before I was able to obey this power, I first needed to be crushed and almost destroyed. I often felt it was a pity this process had taken so long, but now, looking back over thousands of dreams and the sacrifices of a long, hard development, I can see how valuable the experience has been." -- Peter Birkhäuser in conversation with Dean Frantz, ca. 1975 Peter Birkhäuser's pictures are pure products of his unconscious mind. These commentaries do not represent any conscious thoughts of the artist's. They are attempts subsequently to acheive an understanding of the paintings and thus to hint at possible interpretations. -- Marie-Louise von Franz A dual language English-German book of 38 plates, 27 with commentary by Marie-Louise von Franz. Peter Birkhäuser's paintings span much of his process of individuation and are eery, inspiring, and charged with the creative depths of the collective unconscious. This edition is now long out of print. See also: Fenster zur Ewigkeit: Die Malerei von Peter Birkhäuser, ISBN 3908116554, Verlag Stiftung für Jung'sche Psychologie, 2001 hard cover (129 pages, 52 plates). This book is German-only, but has more, higher quality plates and an expanded commentary by Eva Wertenschlag-Birkhäuser. -- B.G.

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