Art and Psyche: Jung and the Red Book

Recommended exploration:

This webpagehammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2010/the-red-book-of-c-g-jung from the Hammer Museum at UCLA has links to a fantastic series of dialogues between creative artists and psychologists
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung
The Red Book, C.G. Jung, ed. Sonu Shondasami
Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis, Catrine Clay



 

Between 1914-1930, Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called his “confrontation with the unconscious.” As he wrestled with the challenges midlife presented him, he poured his dreams, thoughts and feelings into a large, illuminated volume. It was here, in The Red Book, that he came to develop his principle theories of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation for which he was to become famous.
 
The resulting book is a work of astonishing beauty, depth and meaning -the calligraphy and art on a par with the illuminated manuscripts of William Blake, and the writing thought provoking and profound.