
If you already have a NY Times subscription you can click here to read the article: www.nytimes.com Or go to Amazon: www.history.com The footnotes map both Shamdasanis journey and Jungs. They include references to Faust, Keats, Ovid, the Norse gods Odin and Thor, the Egyptian deities Isis and Osiris, the Greek goddess Hecate, ancient Gnostic texts, Greek Hyperboreans, King Herod, the Old Testament, the New Testament, Nietzsches Zarathustra, astrology, the artist Giacometti and the alchemical formulation of gold. And thats just naming a few. The central premise of the book, Shamdasani told me, was that Jung had become disillusioned with scientific rationalism — what he called the spirit of the times — and over the course of many quixotic encounters with his own soul and with other inner figures, he comes to know and appreciate the spirit of the depths, a field that makes room for magic, coincidence and the mythological metaphors delivered by dreams. Working at Zurichs Burghölzli psychiatric hospital, Jung listened intently to the ravings of schizophrenics, believing they held clues to both personal and universal truths. At home, in his spare time, he pored over Dante, Goethe, Swedenborg and Nietzsche. He began to study mythology and world cultures, applying what he learned to the live feed from the unconscious — claiming that dreams offered a rich and symbolic narrative coming from the depths of the psyche. Somewhere along the way, he started to view the human soul — not <b>...</b>
The
Unpublished
Red
Book
by
Carl
Jung
queztalcoatl
2012