Edited by Murray Stein and Thomas Arzt, the essays in the series
Jung's Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern
Conditions are geared to the recognition that the posthumous
publication of The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung in 2009 was a
meaningful gift to our contemporary world.
The Red Book can be considered as a contribution to the "Golden Chain"
(aurea catena) of the world's imaginative literature reaching back to
the ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. As Jung describes this
tradition in a letter to Max Rychner, "Faust is the most recent pillar
in that bridge of the spirit which spans the morass of world history,
beginning with the Gilgamesh epic, the I Ching, the Upanishads, the
Tao-te-Ching, the fragments of Heraclitus, and continuing in the
Gospel of St. John, the letters of St. Paul, in Meister Eckhart and in
Dante." The Red Book extends the "Golden Chain" into our era. Each of
the 18 essays in this third volume of the series, Jung's Red Book for
Our Time, is unique, and all of them converge on the central theme of
the relevance of The Red Book for people today in search of soul under
postmodern conditions.
This is the third volume of a multi-volume series set up on a global and
multicultural level and includes essays from the following distinguished
Jungian analysts and scholars:
- Murray Stein and Thomas Arzt: Introduction
- Stephen A. Aizenstat: The Quest for One's Own Red Book in the
Digital Age
- Paul Brutsche: The Creative Power of Soul: A Central Testimony of
Jung's Red Book
- Joseph Cambray: The Red Book Today: From Novelty to
Innovation - Not Art but Nature
- Linda Carter: Jung as Craftsman
- George B. Hogenson: The Schreber Case and the Origins of the Red
Book
- Toshio Kawai: From Internal to Open Psyche: Overcoming Modern
Consciousness?
- Samir Mahmoud: Reading and Re-Reading Jung as a Muslim: From
Traditionalist Critique to the New Possibilities of The Red Book
- Christine Maillard: C.G. Jung's Subversive Christology in The Red
Book and its Meaning for Our Times
- Mathew Mather: Jung's Red Book and the Alchemical Coniunctio
- Patricia Michan: The Golden Seed: The Hidden Potentiality within
the Vile and the Misshapen
- Gunilla Midbøe: Troll Music in The Red Book
- Anna Milashevich: The Red Book and the Black Swan: The Trickster
as a Psychological Factor behind the Boom and Bust Cycle
- Velimir B. Popovic: "I am as I am not" - The Role of Imagination
in Construing Dialogical Self
- Ingrid Riedel: Transformation of the God-Image in Jung's Red
Book: Foundations for a New Psychology of Religion
- Murray Stein: Jung's Red Book as a New Link in the Aurea
Catena
- Zanet Prinčevac de Villablanca: The Spirit of This Time: "No One's
Child", a Postmodern Fairy Tale
- Megumi Yama: The Red Book: A Journey from West to East via the
Realm of the Dead
- Mari Yoshikawa: A Japanese Perspective on the Meaning of the
Serpent in The Red Book
