Nearly a century after its creation, "The Red Book" by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was the centerpiece on an exhibit mounted by the Library of Congress titled "The Red Book of Carl G. Jung: Its Origins and Influence."

The founder of analytical psychology, Carl Jung began experiencing troubling dreams and waking visions in 1913, and suspected his sanity was slipping. By 1914 he concluded he was having prescient revelations of World War I, yet was also experiencing his own "confrontation with the unconscious," what we might today call a midlife crisis. During this time Jung began work on The Red Book, an unexpectedly beautiful illuminated volume filled with his visions, in which he formulates his principle theories of archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation--the development of the "true self." While Jung considered it his most important work, the book was never published, and only a handful of people saw it during his lifetime. Here at last is a color reproduction of The Red Book--an impressive volume as significant and as striking as The Book of Kells or the visionary works of William Blake; presented with a translation and notes on Jung's career and the book's context in the history of psychology.

The 205-page illustrated manuscript in the author's own hand--had been locked in a vault after Jung's death. With permission from Jung's heirs, a facsimile edition was published in October 2009. Edited by distinguished Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani of the Wellcome Trust Center of University College, London, the book has already been reprinted to meet the significant demand.

ISBN: 978-0393065671

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