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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Deep conflict with

Emma over the roleof Antonia Wolff

Tony


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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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