Answer to Jung: Making Sense of 'The Red Book' - Softcover

Answer to Jung (Paperback)

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The Red Book is C.G. Jungs record of a period of deep penetration into his unconscious mind in a process that he called active imagination, undertaken during his mid-life period. Answer to Jung: Making Sense of The Red Book provides a close reading of this magnificent yet perplexing text and its fascinating images, and demonstrates that the fantasies in The Red Book are not entirely original, but that their plots, characters and symbolism are remarkably similar to some of the higher degree rituals of Continental Freemasonry. It argues that the fantasies may be memories of a series of terrifying initiatory ordeals, possibly undergone in childhood, using altered or spurious versions of these Masonic rites. It then compares these initiatory scenarios with accounts of ritual trauma that have been reported since the 1980s. This is the first full-length study of The Red Book to focus on the fantasies themselves and provide such an external explanation for them.Sonu Shamdasani describes The Red Book as an incomplete task that Jung left to posterity as a message in a bottle that would someday come ashore. Answer to Jung brings its message to shore, providing a coherent, but disturbing, interpretation of each of the fantasies and their accompanying images.Chapters: Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Answer to Jung is the first full-length study of The Red Book to focus on the fantasies themselves. It provides a clear explanation for the traumatic aspects of The Red Book, that is, the accounts of suffering, cruelty, confusion and terror in the text, and points to an external source for these fantasies. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Artikel-Nr. 9781138312395

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