carl g. jung

THE RED BOOK OF LIBER NOVUS visual essay by CARL G. JUNG   “The years, of which I have spoken to you, 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 entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life.” These were the words of the psychologist Carl G. Jung in 1957, referring to the book he worked on from 1914 to 1930 and kept secret all his life: ‘The Red Book’. This distinctive piece of art embodies his psychoanalytic theory, blending cultural archetypes with psychology shaped by his concept of the collective unconscious — one of…