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The Red Book Summary & Review: Meet the Inner Teacher You Keep Ignoring
Jung’s Liber Novus is a lab notebook for the inner life: talk with the figures that run you, hold the tension of…
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C. G. Jung
"Talk back to the psyche that runs you."
Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist who began as Freud’s heir apparent and then refused to let the inner life be only repressed sexuality. After the 1913 break he sat, wrote, and painted until the psyche answered in scenes. That private work, issued in 2009 as The Red Book: Liber Novus, is the underground of the public Jung. He built a practice at Burghölzli, a tower at Bollingen, and a psychology that treats images as facts you can talk to.
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Key Ideas & Recurring Themes
Two spirits
Hold the Times and the Depths in one week. Do not pick a side forever.
Active imagination
Sit, stay, write, return. Talk with the image before you explain it.
Inner teacher
Grow Philemon so authority is not only rented from a feed.
Notable Quotes
"My soul, where are you? Do you hear me?"— The Red Book
"The spirit of the depths took my understanding and all my knowledge and placed them at the service of the inexplicable."— The Red Book
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The Red Book Summary & Review: Meet the Inner Teacher You Keep Ignoring
Jung’s Liber Novus is a lab notebook for the inner life: talk with the figures that run you, hold the tension of opposites, and return with a practice that survives an ordinary week.