The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition

The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the\nnucleus of C. G. Jung’s later works. It was here that he developed\nhis principal theories of the archetypes, the collective\nunconscious, and the process of individuation that would transform\npsychotherapy from treatment of the sick into a means for the\nhigher development of the personality. As Sara Corbett wrote in the\nNew York Times, The creation of one of modern history’s true\nvisionaries, The Red Book is a singular work, outside of\ncategorization. As an inquiry into what it means to be human, it\ntranscends the history of psychoanalysis and underscores Jung’s\nplace among revolutionary thinkers like Marx, Orwell and, of\ncourse, Freud.The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition features Sonu\nShamdasani’s introductory essay and the full translation of Jung’s\nvital work in one volume.

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