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‘The Red Book’: A Window Into Jung’s Dreams
By Karen Michel of NPR:
Image at Right: Detail of an illustration of a solar barge on page 55 of Carl Jung’s Red Book.
The first words of Carl Gustav Jung’s Red Book are “The way of what is to come.”
What follows is 16 years of the psychoanalyst’s dive into the unconscious mind, a challenge to what he considered Sigmund Frued’s — his former mentor’s — isolated world view. Far from a simple narrative, the Red Book is Jung’s voyage of discovery into his deepest self.
The voyage began at age 11. “On my way to school,” Jung recalled in 1959, “I stepped out of a mist and I knew I am. I am what I am. And then I thought, ‘But what have I been before?’ And then I found that I had been…
