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Series: Philemon (Book 1)
Hardcover: 404 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (October 19, 2009)
In the Homeric epic the ODYSSEY, Odysseus visits the underworld. In Virgil's AENEID, Aeneas visits the underworld. In Dante's DIVINE COMMEDY, the character named Dante visits the underworld with Virgil as his guide through the Inferno and Purgatory.
Figuratively speaking, C. G. Jung, M.D. (1875-1961), the Swiss psychiatrist and psychological theorist, could be described as visiting the underworld of his psyche periodically over a number of years as part of his mid-life crisis. In his self-experimentation, he visited the underworld of his psyche through self-induced hallucinations - visual and auditory hallucinations.
Self-inducing hallucinations is a potentially dangerous practice, and I do not recommend it. Instead of doing it for ourselves, we can read Jung's elaborate report of his experiences.
In 2009, Norton published Jung's RED BOOK: LIBER NOVUS, expertly edited by the historian Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani. It is a handsome over-sized book that includes many informative footnotes by Shamdasani. Jung's RED BOOK contains many of his works of art based on his visual hallucinations and the "fair" copies of the texts he produced in calligraphy based on his auditory hallucinations. In addition, some other material Jung recorded in connection with his encounter with the unconscious is included in three appendices.
In addition to the over-sized book, Norton also published the regular-sized book THE RED BOOK: LIBER NOVUS; A READER'S EDITION (2012). Both books contain the same textual material, but arranged differently. However, Jung's paintings are not reproduced in the READER'S EDITION.
Everybody can remember having dreams when they were asleep.Read more ›
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This book is one of the greatest I've ever read. The insight you gain from seeing inside the mind of Carl Jung is priceless and you will rarely ever get a person to document what truly goes on in their noggin to the detail that you will find here. It can be a bit deep but if you are a student of the mind you will find value in each level and I imagine will get a different experience if you were to pick it up again 1-5 years later and see how it applies to your own inner journey in parts.
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Okay, now I've read it all, whew!!! Starting the second time through and taking notes. This is historic literature and the second time even better since the introductory materials by editor and translators are even more valuable and more transparently astute and, well, brilliant.
It is touching to see Jung sweating blood (red means a lot of things and blood is one of them) to arrive at understandings that have by now become so much a part of our worldview, so much a part of psychology, so much a part of our myth with Joseph Campbell and all the better known authors and scholars working with Jung's understandings.
There are schools of astrology infused with the very understandings Jung found on his self-experiments and exploration. No wonder he considered this the genesis of everything he did later and his most important. And no wonder he hesitated again and again to publish it. He felt it would defeat his insistence on sticking to science, to the empirical, for in this journey through his own subconscious mind, he had to toss science and words away. Because there's more than that going on in us.
Two schools that are directly infused with all these understandings are Liz Greene's London School of Astrology (she's Zurich trained Jungian) and Jeffrey Wolf Green's Pluto School of Evolutionary Astrology. Jeffrey got his understandings the same way Jung did, on the inner planes, but expressed them often in Jung's terms because, after all, these terms (archetypes, collective unconscious) are now a part of our worldview. That is what Jung hoped for. But also he hoped (and said) that a time would come we would realize we ARE each other and that what we do toward one another we do to ourselves.Read more ›
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Amazingly, this is one of the highest rated products on Amazon with 5 stars. Like many people I had to get this book when word broke a few years ago since it was kept from public eyes for the better part of a century. It contains faithful reproductions of Jung's diary and illustrations. The pictures are truly astounding and an essential part of the book. You won't see anything like this anywhere because it is a truly personal account from a legendary man. There is also an abridged copy of The Red Book for sale without any illustrations but that doesn't do Jung justice. The text is almost as complicated as the man himself because The Red Book is not an easy read. It is truly hard to describe because Jung himself was going through a personal crisis when he wrote it (as partially described by the editor in the introduction). It was written privately between 1914 and 1930 and contains over 200 pictures in gorgeous color. This is a very unique work that many consider a very valuable part of Jung's legacy. The Red Book is absolutely gargantuan in size (it's probably the single largest book I own in terms of physical dimensions). Some of it is in German; fortunately a complete English translation is also provided. I must admit it can take a long time to grasp and appreciate Jung's words but if depth psychology interests you then this book is considered a must-own item by Jungians and students of psychology alike.
For an intro to Jung, check out Man and His Symbols. The Red Book has successfully held its value since it was first published.
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