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The red book = Liber novus / C.G. Jung ; edited by Sonu Shamdasani ; preface by Ulrich Hoerni ; translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio BF109.J8 A3 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961
- Series:
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961. Philemon series
- Philemon series
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Jung, C. G.
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.
- Psychoanalysts--Switzerland--Biography.
- Psychoanalysts.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Swiss.
- Jungian psychology.
- History.
- Switzerland.
- Jungian psychology--History--Sources.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Swiss--Facsimiles.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Dreams.
- Unconscious, Psychology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Switzerland.
- Dreams.
- Unconscious, Psychology.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Facsimiles.
- Sources.
- Manuscripts.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xii pages, 4 unnumbered pages, vii leaves, 2 unnumbered pages, 371 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 40 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Manufacture:
- Verona : Mondadori Printing.
- Other Title:
- Liber novus
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2009]
- Language Note:
- Text of the facsimile is in German; editorial materials and translation of the facsimile text are in English.
- Summary:
- This exact facsimile of the illuminated manuscript "Liber novus", also known as the "Red book", written by Jung from 1914 to 1930, and here presented with accompanying English translation, contextual essay, and notes, reveals not only an extraordinary mind at work but also the hand of a gifted artist and calligrapher. The Liber novus provides a unique window into how Jung spent these years navigating his soul and exploring the unconscious in extended self-experimentation, and constituted a psychology. Interspersed among more than two hundred lovely illuminated pages are paintings whose influences range from Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East, to the native art of the new world.
- Contents:
- Liber novus: the "Red book" of C.G. Jung by Sonu Shamdasani
- Liber primus:
- The way of what is to come
- Refinding the soul
- Soul and God
- On the service of the soul
- The desert
- Experiences in the desert
- Descent into Hell in the future
- Splitting of the spirit
- Murder of the hero
- The conception of the God
- Mysterium encounter
- Instruction
- Resolution
- Liber secundus:
- The images of the erring
- The red one
- The castle in the forest
- One of the lowly
- The Anchorite: Dies I [Day I]
- Dies II [Day II]
- Death
- The remains of earlier temples
- First day
- Second day
- The incantations
- The opening of the egg
- Hell
- The sacrificial murder
- Divine folly
- Nox secunda [Second night]
- Nox tertia [Third night]
- Nox quarta [Fourth night]
- The three prophecies
- The gift of magic
- The way of the cross
- The magician
- Scrutinies
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: Mandalas
- Appendix B: Commentaries
- Appendix C: Entry for 16 January 1916 from Black Book 5.
- Notes:
- The facsimile of the Liber primus ms. retains the Roman numeral foliation of the original, the facsimile of the Liber secundus ms. retains the Arabic pagination of the original; the editorial materials, which follow the latter ms., continue the Arabic sequence.
- "A publication in arrangement with the Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung, Zürich"--title page.
- "Book design and composition by Larry Vigon and Eric Baker Design Assocates"--title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- RBC copy has dust-jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 9780393065671
- 0393065677
- OCLC:
- 317919484
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