{"id":6219,"date":"2009-10-20T02:56:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T01:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2009-10-20T02:56:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T01:56:57","slug":"the-red-book-by-carl-jung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/10\/20\/the-red-book-by-carl-jung\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Book by Carl Jung"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This month is a major one in book publishing as Carl Jung’s magnum opus The Red Book<\/em><\/a>, or Liber Novus<\/em>, which has remained unpublished for 80 years, is issued in a facsimile edition. Selections of pages have been turning up in reviews and online previews<\/a> which easily whet the appetite.<\/p>\n

In his late 30s, Jung started writing a book called The Red Book<\/em>. The Red Book<\/em> is part journal, part mythological novel that takes the reader through Jung\u2019s fantasies \u2014 hallucinations he self-induced to try and get to the core of his unconscious. … The book detailed an unabashedly psychedelic voyage through his own mind, a vaguely Homeric progression of encounters with strange people taking place in a curious, shifting dreamscape. Writing in German, he filled 205 oversize pages with elaborate calligraphy and with richly hued, staggeringly detailed paintings. (More<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jung maintained a lifelong fascination with alchemical symbolism and many of these pages resemble the kind of plates one finds in alchemical treatises such as the Splendor Solis<\/a><\/em>, if that book had also contained additions from William Blake and Hildegard von Bingen. The only drawback is the price: at \u00a3120 this isn’t a casual purchase, but then this is over 400 pages of full-colour at a big size, 45.7 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm. Time to start petitioning rich relatives for Christmas.<\/p>\n

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This month is a major one in book publishing as Carl Jung’s magnum opus The Red Book, or Liber Novus, which has remained unpublished for 80 years, is issued in a facsimile edition. Selections of pages have been turning up in reviews and online previews which easily whet the appetite. In his late 30s, Jung … Continue reading “The Red Book by Carl Jung”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,16],"tags":[559,266,754,511,755,620,756],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-occult","tag-alchemy","tag-calligraphy","tag-carl-jung","tag-derek-jarman","tag-hildegard-von-bingen","tag-julien-champagne","tag-william-blake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Cj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}