Section 0: Liber Primus
Section 1+: unfinished
written by Carl G. Jung (1875-1961) "with his own hand in his house in Kiisnacht/Ziirich in the year 1915."
The years [...] 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, scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then. -- Jung, 1957
To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness. -- Jung, 1959
researched/edited/footnoted by Sonu Shamdasani (b. 1962).
If one does not place Jung's confrontation with the unconscious in a proper perspective, or understand the significance of the Red Book, one is in no place to understand fully Jung's intellectual development from 1913 onwards, and not only that, but his life as well: it was his inner life which dictated his movements in the world. ... For Jung's work on his fantasies in Black Books and the Red Book formed the core of his later work, as he himself contended. The Red Book is at the center of Jung's life and work. [Understanding Jung] without an accurate account of it would be like writing the life of Dante without the Commedia, or Goethe without Faust. -- Shamdasani, 2009(?)
prepared for publication by The Philemon Foundation. see their details, links, and references regarding The Red Book.
a non-profit organization that exists to prepare for publication the Complete Works of Carl Gustav Jung.
published by W. W. Norton & Company in the year 2009.
W. W. Norton, New York Hardcover, 2009, $250.00 ISBN: 9780393065671, 404 pages, 12.3" x 18", illustrations.
W. W. Norton, New York/London Hardcover, 2012, $39.95, ISBN: 9780393089080, 600 pages, 6" x 8.8".