The Red Book (Jung)
"To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness."
Carl Gustav Jung • The Red Book (Jung)
In 1957, near the end of his life, Jung spoke to Aniela Jaffé about the Red Book and the process which gave rise to it. In that interview he stated:
The years... when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My... See more
Carl Gustav Jung • The Red Book (Jung)
what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me
Biographers and critics have disagreed whether these years in Jung's life should be seen as "a creative illness", a period of introspection, a psychotic breakdown or simply as a period of madness.[7] Anthony Storr, reflecting on Jung's own judgment that he was "menaced by a psychosis" during this time, concluded that the period represented a psycho... See more