Carl Jung's The Red Book

[Wireless]

Hi,

Has anyone read The Red Book? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung)

I haven't because I know I'm not ready for it and couldn't begin to understand it, but I would like to know what others think about it. I hear it's an intense read and some say Jung was experiencing a pyshchotic episode.

Thanks

 

[Mia]

This looks quite interesting Wireless . Had heard about the existence of the red book, and there are references to it in Psyche and Symbol, as well as the Essential Jung. It's a fascinating look into what Jung thought of as a waking dialogue with the sublimated aspects of self. Have not read it, but I might consider it. He considers all the work that comes after as a direct interpretation of this most important period of his life.

 

[Wireless]

Here's an interesting, but brief, introduction to The Red Book

 

[wfs]

Jung is a challenge for everyone. Even professionals. However, the Red Book is his personal journal and it is absolutely fascinating to share the process by which he discovered and outlined his inner psychological workings. Concerning psychosis: Jung did NOT have a psychotic break. The reference in the book was to a series of dreams that he had that were so disturbing that he logically considered that he might be about to have a psychotic break. When WWI broke out within a few months of these disturbing dreams, and he did NOT have a break with reality, he began to seriously consider the possible nature of the Collective Unconscious, and the very real possibility that we are psychically linked together and he was sharing the upheaval from the unconscious that expressed itself in war.