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The Alchemical Sacred Marriage (Jungian) - Paul Ferguson - 06-09-2025
The Alchemical Sacred Marriage: A Woman's Sandplay Journey to Wholeness
January 2024
DOI:10.61711/jst.2024.33.2.559
Authors: Lynne L. Ehlers
"C. G. Jung contended that the work of the ancient Western alchemists was a metaphor for the process of individuation, and that the three colors, black, white, and red that the alchemists reported seeing in their vessels—termed after their Latin alchemical equivalents, nigredo, albedo, and rubedo, respectively—represented stages of psychological development. This contention was empirically tested and corroborated in the author's 1992 dissertation on the colors in her dreams over a 14-year period, and further corroborated in the sandplay clinical material of a woman whose off-and-on therapy spanned 22 years."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386148219_The_Alchemical_Sacred_Marriage_A_Woman%27s_Sandplay_Journey_to_Wholeness