Booktopia - The Red Book, Carl Jung, 9780393065671

The Red Book

By: Carl Jung
Editor: Sonu Shamdasani, Carl Gustav Jung

Retail Price:	$320.00
Booktopia Price	$288.00

ISBN: 9780393065671

Format: Hardcover
Published: 27th October 2009

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Orders for The Red Book received after October 9 2009 will be supplied around the first week of December. Thank you for your patience.

The most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology.

This is a simply stunning book - it is huge, full of illuminated paintings from Jung's own hand, as well as his pen and ink calligraphic notes. This facsimile of Jung's previously unpublished seminal work is being produced with a very limited print run. Booktopia has secured a handful of copies but make no mistake, this exceptional work of significance and beauty will sell out. Scholars of psychology, art and history will all be interested in this rare volume.

When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called his "confrontation with the unconscious," the heart of it was The Red Book, a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here he developed his principle theories -- of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation -- that transformed psychotherapy from a practice concerned with treatment of the sick into a means for higher development of the personality.

While Jung considered The Red Book to be his most important work, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to scholars and the general public. It is an astonishing example of calligraphy and art on a par with The Book of Kells and the illuminated manuscripts of William Blake. This publication of The Red Book is a watershed that will cast new light on the making of modern psychology.

This publication reproduces the German-language manuscript and provides an English translation by W.W. Norton & Company and weighs 8.8 pounds.