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The Red Book
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C.G. Jung. Mark Kyburz, John Peck & Sonu Shamdasani, trans. |
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Norton |
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hardcover
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| ISBN |
9780393065671 |
| Pages/Publication Date |
416/2009 |
| Daedalus Item Code |
09154 |
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| Description |
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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. (We need your phone number and a street address for delivery. Please call us for information about additional shipping charges if you want this item shipped overnight, two-day, or to an international address.) "At times, Jung sounds spiritually anguished: 'I am weary, my soul, my wandering has lasted too long, my search for myself outside of myself.' At other times, his writing resembles the directions in some fantasy video game: 'I am standing in a high hall. Before me I see a green curtain between two columns. The curtain parts easily.... In the rear wall, I see a door right and left.... I choose the right.' At still other times, there are philosophical and religious dialogues of self and soul, or conversations with various mythic characters like Philemon. In short, this is a volume that will be treasured by the confirmed Jungian or by admirers of beautifully made books or by those with a taste for philosophical allegory."—Washington Post
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