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The red book = Liber novus : a reader's edition / C.G. Jung ; edited and with an introduction by Sonu Shamdasani ; preface by Ulrich Hoerni ; translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani.

by Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.

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W.W. Norton & Co., c2009.

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.

Psychoanalysts -- Switzerland -- Biography.

Jungian psychology.

Manuscripts -- Facsimiles.

Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Facsimiles.

Illustration of books.

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961. Philemon series.

9780393089080 (pbk.)

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xviii, 582 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface to the reader's edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Liber novus: the "Red Book" of C.G. Jung by Sonu Shamdasani -- Translator's notes -- Editorial note -- Note to the reader's edition -- Abbreviations and a note on pagination -- Prologue. The way of what is to come -- Ch. 1. Refinding the soul -- Ch. 2. Soul and God -- Ch. 3. On the service of the soul -- Ch. 4. The desert -- Experiences in the desert -- Ch. 5. Descent into Hell in the future -- Ch. 6. Splitting of the spirit -- Ch. 7. Murder of the hero -- Ch. 8. The conception of the God -- Ch. 9. Mysterium. Encounter -- Ch. 10. Instruction -- Ch. 11. Resolution -- Liber Secundus. The images of the erring -- Ch. 1. The red one -- Ch. 2. The castle in the forest -- Ch. 3. One of the lowly -- Ch. 4. The anchorite dies I [day 1] -- Ch. 5. Dies II [Day 2] -- Ch. 6. Death -- Ch. 7. The remains of earlier temples -- Ch. 8. First day -- Ch. 9. Second day -- Ch. 10. The incantations -- Ch. 11. The opening of the egg -- Ch. 12. Hell -- Ch. 13. The sacrificial murder -- Ch. 14. Divine folly -- Ch. 15. Nox secunda [Second night] -- Ch. 16. Nox tertia [Third night] -- Ch. 17. Nox quarta [Fourth night] -- Ch. 18. The three prophecies -- Ch. 19. The gift of magic -- Ch. 20. The way of the cross -- Ch. 21. The magician -- Scrutinies. -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: mandalas -- Appendix B: commentaries -- Appendix C: entry for 16 January 1916 from Black Book 5.

When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration, the result was "The Red Book," a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. However, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now it is available to scholars and the general public.

Shamdasani, Sonu, 1962-

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