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Four Stars because there is no way I understood this enough to give it 5. So. Many. Words.
But, it was all, the alchemical quest mirrors our own journey toward self-discovery or something. Sounded important. Jung was an interesting dude, but he never did get around to telling me how to turn gold into immortality...
EDIT - in a turn of events Jung would have loved, I turned on Esoterica today to synchronistically find How Theosophy Created Spiritual Alchemy - The Alchemy of Jakob Böhme, wherein Dr Justin Sledge cites this work, saying, "Jung most famously would understand The Alchemist as unconsciously describing the process as psychological individualization... basically uniformed by alchemical practice in theory... (though) Jung's work fired the imagination of a generation... students realized how detached his series was from historical reality... and just how much he cherry picked his sources to fit his paradigm."
-That adds a little sublimatio to Jung's text that does not transform the topic from its impurities and base elements, alas.