The Red Book Of Jung: A Personal Experience

The Red Book is one of the principal works of Carl Gustav Jung, the great rival of Freud. It has been published only recently, many years after the death of Jung. The title hints at the cover of one of the journals of Jung, but also to its content, which can show another side of Jung, who was not only a psychoanalyst, as this book reveals. Here, the visionary genius of Jung is evident, not only through a sequence of notes not different from Nietzsche’s or Swedenborg’s, only to quote the most similar spirits. The author of this commentary on the book, a philosopher and an Orientalist, as well as a former teacher of Dynamical Psychology (Advanced Course,) grasps the traits of The Red Book through personal experience. He does not try to sift the Gnostic and alchemic references, but rather to catch the essence of this book, which learns us to integrate our conflicts and the refractory instincts in our minds. The reader’s personality may be enriched by a commentary that aims at comprehension, more than the transmission of useless knowledge to the daily life. One is the central question of the book, that in this commentary often repeats itself: what is evil?