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Journal of Religion and Health
Published in: Journal of Religion and Health 3/2010

01-09-2010 | Book Review

THE RED BOOK LIBER NOVUS. By C. G. Jung. Edited by Sonu Shamdasani. Preface by Ulrich Hoerni. Translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani. 369 pp. New York: W. W. Norton. 2009. $195

Author: Ann Belford Ulanov, PhD

Published in: Journal of Religion and Health | Issue 3/2010

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Something happened to Jung, and when we read The Red Book, something happens to us. Jung describes this experience in his fortieth year as the pivotal one of his life: it took “forty-five years to bring these things that I once experienced and wrote down into the vessel of my scientific work” (219); this was “the numinous beginning, which contained everything” (Frontispiece). But the living of it was like an erupting lava of fantasies, characters, and overwhelming affects that “burst forth from the unconscious…and threatened to break me” (Frontispiece). “The first imaginings and dreams were like fiery, molten basalt, from which the stone crystallized, upon which I could work” (219). …
Literature
Jung, C. G. (1963). Memories, dreams, reflections. In A. Jaffe (Ed.). (Richard & C. Winston, Trans.). New York: Random House.
Ulanov, A. B. (2007). The unshuttered heart: Opening to aliveness and deadness in the self. Nashville, TN: Abingdon.
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Title
THE RED BOOK LIBER NOVUS. By C. G. Jung. Edited by Sonu Shamdasani. Preface by Ulrich Hoerni. Translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani. 369 pp. New York: W. W. Norton. 2009. $195
Author
Ann Belford Ulanov, PhD
Publication date
01-09-2010
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Religion and Health / Issue 3/2010
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-010-9361-8

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