CG Jung - the Red Book

From Liber Novus: The "Red Book" of C. G. Jung by SONU SHAMDASANI

C. G. JUNG is widely recognized as a major figure in modern Western thought, and his work continues to spark controversies. He played critical roles in the formation of modern psychology, psychotherapy, and psychiatry, and a large international profession of analytical psychologists work under his name. His work has had its widest impact, however, outside professional circles: Jung and Freud are the names that most people first think of in connection with psychology, and their ideas have been widely disseminated in the arts, the humanities, films, and popular culture. Jung is also widely regarded as one of the instigators of the New Age movement. However, it is startling to realize that the book that stands at the center of his oeuvre, on which he worked for over sixteen years, is only now being published.

There can be few unpublished works that have already exerted such far-reaching effects upon twentieth-century social and intellectual history as Jung's Red Book, or Liber Novus (New Book). Nominated by Jung to contain the nucleus of his later works, it has long been recognized as the key to comprehending their genesis. Yet aside from a few tantalizing glimpses, it has remained unavailable for study.

In response to Shamdasani's prodigious effort to make the Red Book available for study, here we study it. Please sign in to gain access to a full range of materials, including various versions of the text and post-graduate considerations of each of its parts, as well as a comprehensive index of sources, on and offline, for your continuing study and reflection. By accessing these materials you explicitly agree to participate in discussions about them here on the Culturesmith site.