Nigredo
In alchemy, nigredo, or blackness, means putrefaction or decomposition. The alchemists believed that as a first step in the pathway to the philosopher's stone all alchemical ingredients had to be cleansed and cooked extensively to a uniform black matter.
In analytical psychology, the term became a metaphor 'for the dark night of the soul, when an individual confronts the shadow within'.
Jung
For Carl Jung, 'the rediscovery of the principles of alchemy came to be an important part of my work as a pioneer of psychology'. As a student of alchemy, he (and his followers) 'compared the "black work" of the alchemists (the nigredo) with the often highly critical involvement experienced by the ego, until it accepts the new equilibrium brought about by the creation of the self'. Jungians interpreted nigredo in two main psychological senses.
The first sense represented a subject's initial state of undifferentiated unawareness, 'the first nigredo, that of the unio naturalis, is an objective state, visible from the outside only...an unconscious state of non-differentiation between self and object, consciousness and the unconscious'. Here the subject is '"too conscious"...in reality unconscious of the unconscious; i.e. the connection with the instincts'.
Nigredo (album)
Nigredo is a studio album by Diary of Dreams. The album was released on October 25, 2004.
Tracklist
References
Podcasts:
Nigredo
ALBUMS
- Carmina defunctorum released: 1994
Nigredo
by: Diary Of DreamsI know for sure
You left me here
I came for shelter
My last conviction
I'll fight for sure
You found me stranded
My hand in yours
A farewell whisper
Tell me what for...
Tell me why...
Tell me the reason...
Tell me how...
Tremble on...
My last conviction...
My last farewell...
My last prediction...
This is my cell