Reading The Red Book Jung Society of Atlanta（读红书荣格亚特兰大的社会）.pdf

k o o B d e R m o r f g n i t n i a p f o l i a t e d Reading The Red Book by Mary Davis ost persons interested in depth psychology and the cult to decipher even if one knows some German. The English Mwork and thoughts of Carl Jung eagerly awaited the translation is very helpful, especially with the extensive foot- publication in October, 2009, of Carl Jung’s The Red notes and the introductory material by Sonu Shamdasani. Book (Liber Novus). Public interest was enhanced by the mys- Our Jung Society initiated a Red Book discussion group in tery surrounding its contents as well as by the fact that the origi- early 2010, and so finally in 2010, I purchased my copy. I had nal had been locked in a Swiss bank’s vault for many years. hoped the price would decrease, but instead, the price continued Dr. Jung appears to have written most of the first version of to climb! I heard Daniel Baumann, one of Dr. Jung’s great what became the first part of The Red Book between 1913 and grandsons, say that the publisher underestimated the public de- 1915, although some of the dreams and visions upon which it is mand for copies. He said that by April, 2010, more than 45,000 based appear to have occurred earlier. Off and on, at least English language copies and more than 10,000 German lan- through 1930, he revisited, re-worked, and revised the material guage copies had been sold. and created the calligraphic version with images. So, my personal journey