The Red Book; Liber Novus
New York: W.W. Norton, 2009. Second printing of the facsimile edition. Hardcover. 371pp. Folio [39.5 cm] Red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Covers slightly cocked. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. In the matching dust jacket, with rubbing and a number of scratches and indented marks to the panels (the majority of the wear is to the rear panel). There is a very short closed tear along the bottom edge of the rear panel, measuring less than a centimeter long. Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping will most likely be required. Shipping outside of the United States is strongly discouraged. Very Good / Very Good. Item #69488
ISBN: 9780393065671
Philemon Series. An exact facsimile. According to the publisher, this is the most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology.
From the dust jacket- “The years, of which I have spoken to you, when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then.”
These are the words of the psychologist C. G. Jung in 1957, referring to the decades he worked on The Red Book from 1914 to 1930. Although its existence has been known for more than eighty years, The Red Book was never published or made available to the wide audience of Jung’s students and followers. Nothing less than the central book of Jung’s oeuvre, it is being published now in a full facsimile edition with a contextual essay and notes by the noted Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani and translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani.
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