jung's red book: an old book with new ideas
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Jungs Heart: The Red Book
in Perspective
David M. McDowell, MD
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Stephen Martin
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Sonu Shamdasani
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The Jung Family
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Finally Published
Started in 1913 Published in
October 2009
9 1/2 pounds
Surprisingly briskseller
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SourcesBlack books 2-5 (11/13-4/14)
Handwritten draft (1914-15)
Typed draft (1915)
Corrected draft (1915-20)Caligraphic Volume (1915-
30, 1959)
Cary Baynes transcription(1924-25)
Yale ManuscriptCopy Edited Liber Primus
(late 1950s)
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Carl Jung Founder of
Psychoanalysis
Physician
Respectable Family
Man
World renowned
psychiatrist
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Carl Jung Agent 488
Flying Saucers
Personality Tests Eastern Philosophy
proponent
Integral to the foundingof AA
Womanizer Guru
Media darling
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Who is Carl Jung?
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Family Background--Father
Grandfather, Carl Gustav Jung was a
respected physician
Grandfather was a Grandmaster of the
Freemasons
Rumored (likely not true) to be the
illegitimate son of Goethe Carls Father was a clergyman
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Family Background--Mother
(Preiswerk) A long established Basil family
Contained many clergy
Grandfather was an earlyadvocate of Zionism, with a strong
interest in the occult
Until her marriage, Emilie was
obligated to stand behind her
father as he wrote his sermons (toblock the devil)
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Other Childhood influences Mother had a
breakdown when Carlwas three years old
Father lost his faith, butlacking otherprofessional skills,continued on with hisprofession
The atmosphere athome wasunbreathable
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Childhood He was an
unpopular, aloof
child While he was bright,
he was suspect.
Famous incident ofthe accusation ofplagiarism
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Fantasy Life
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Am I the boy on thestone, or am I the
stone itself that the
boy is sitting on?
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Another recurrent dream
involved a castle
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Childhood Isolated
Found comfort in
books and thinkers
Influenced by
(among others)
Heraclitis, Kant,
Shopenhauer, andGoethe
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Personality #1 Dutiful
The child of his
parents
The outward person
who went to school,
and coped with life
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Personality #2 Older
Remote from the
mundane world
Close to nature,
dreams, and to God
Direct access to the
mind of God (unlike
his father
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Crucial Dream He is walking in a dense fog at night. He isholding a small flickering flame which he isprotecting against the elements, and is beingfollowed by a dark and dangerous character.
When I awoke he says, I realized at oncethat the figure was a spectre of the Brocken,my own shadow of the swirling mists, broughtinto being by the little light I was carrying. I
knew too, that this little light was myconsciousness, the only light I have. My ownunderstanding is the sole treasure I possess,and the greatest.
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Death of his father Age 54
Jung was 21
He died in time for you His mother
commented Darkly
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Jung the traditional man
He married Emma
Rauchenbach
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Jung the traditional man
They lived in a
handsome house
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Jung the Family Man
Had five children
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Jung the Family Man
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Relationship with Freud Freud was 50, Jung 32 when they met
Intellectually infatuated with one another
Let me enjoy your friendship not as one between equals, but as
that of father and son First president of the International Psychoanalytic Association
and Chief Editor of the first Psychoanalytic journal , theJahrbuch
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Break with Freud Break with Freud
Inevitable, but deeply painful (for both)
Based upon (at least on the surface) thegrowing independence of Jungs thoughts,
and Freuds intolerance of dissent
The Gesture of Kreuzlingen was the final
spark that lit the powder-keg
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1913 the annus horribilus
Break with Freud
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1913 the annus horribilus
Deep conflict with
Emma over the roleof Antonia Wolff
Tony
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1913 the annus horribilus
Tensions which would
lead to World War I
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In October [1913], while I was alone on a journey, I wassuddenly seized by an overpowering vision: I saw amonstrous flood covering all the northern and low-lying lands between the North Sea and the Alps.When it came up to Switzerland I saw that themountains grew higher and higher to protect ourcountry. I realized that a frightful catastrophe was inprogress. I saw the mighty yellow waves, the floatingrubble of civilization, and the drowned bodies ofuncounted thousands. Then the whole sea turned toblood. This vision last about one hour. I was
perplexed and nauseated, and ashamed of myweakness.
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The Crisis The edge of madness
He played in his garden like a child
Head voices in his head
Held conversations with imaginary
figures
Believed his house to be filled with the
spirits of the dead
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Methods to deal with his
psychological State Like Osysseus, Heracles, and
Orpheus
Jung embraced the darkness
He explored, and embraced the
characters he found within his
imagination
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When I parted from Freud, I knew that I wasplunging into the unknow. Beyond Freud,after all, I knew nothing; but I had taken thesteps into darkness. When that happens, and
then such dream comes, one feels it is an actof grace.
It all began then; the later details are onlysupplements and clarifications of the materialthat burst forth from the unconscious, and at
first swamped me. It was the prima materiafor a lifetimes work.
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The Red Book Jounal
Journey
Heroic Tale
Myth
Dialogue
Illustrated
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The Red Book--highlights Travels to the land of
the dead
Falls in love with a
woman who later turnsout to be his sister
Gets squeezed by agiant serpent
Eats the liver of a smallchild
Is criticized by the devilas being hateful
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The Red Book
Liber Primus
Liber Secundus
Scrutinies
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Liber Primus It begins with Isaiah
The voice changes
over time--andincludes the
protagonist and his
soul.
The soul--his soul--takes him on a
journey
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Adventures The Desert
Descent into Hell in the
Future climb down into
your depths
The spliting of the spirit
The murder of the hero
The conception of God
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Mysterium. Encounter Elijah (the first old man)
His daughter Salome
Encounters with Peter with the triple Key--The Pope,Buddha, and a many armed bloody goddess
The black worm, serpent, snake etc. makeappearances
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Liber PrimusThe Mystery showed
me in images what I
should afterwardlive. I did not
possess any of
those boons that the
mystery showed me,for I still had to earn
all of them.
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Liber Secundus Begins with an encounter with The Red
One
He then encounters a woman She isbeautiful. A deep purity rests in herlook.
After that he encounters One of the
lowly After that an Anchorite (Ammonius)
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Liber Secundus The remains of
earlier temples.
Incantations The opening of the
egg
Hell is introduced
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Nox Secunda Many dialogues
I accepted the chaos, and on the
following night, my soul approachedme
Followed by nox tertia and nox quarta
Elijah and other characters appear
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The Magician Is first encountered
in a small house in
the forest. He is old, but
content
He is wise.
His name isPhilemon
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Philemon The wise protector,
and adviser
Roots in greekmythology
Goethe
Winged
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Scrutinies Begins with an
amusing dialogue
between the authorand himself.
Philemon continues
to give advice, and
make observations. Elijah returns
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ScrutiniesThrough all of these
journeys there is
struggle, andacceptance, and re-
emergence. It is a
journey through life.
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Scrutinies The Blue Shade appears
I find you in the garden, beloved. The
sins of the world have conferred beautyupon your countenance
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Epilogue
I worked on this book for 16 years. Myacquaintance with alchemy in 1930 took meaway from it. The beginning of the end camein 1928 when Wilhelm sent me the text of
The Golden FlowerTo the superficialobserver, it will appear like madnessItwould also have developed into one, had I notbeen able to absorb the overpowering forceof the original experiencesI knew nothing
but to write them down in a precious and topaint the images that emerged throughreliving it all
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The Red Book as Jungs
Heart The germ of many of his contributions.
He in many ways became Philemon, and all
the characters A living embodiment of the adventures of the
Red Book.
A towering character, and individual, whomade one of the most lasting contributions ofthe twentieth century.
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