Jung's Red Book for Our Time

The spiritual malaise regnant in today’s disenchanted world presents a picture of “a polar night of icy darkness,” as Max Weber wrote already a century ago. This collective dark night of the soul is driven by climate change-related disasters, rapid technological innovations, and opaque geostra­tegic realign­ments. In the wake of what policy analysts refer to as “Westlessness,” the post­modern age is characterized by incessant distractions, urgent calls to responsibility, and in-humanly short deadlines, which result in a general state of exhaustion and burnout. The hovering sense of living in a time frame that is post-histoire induces states of confusion on a personal level as well as in the realm of politics. Totally missing is a grand nar­rative to guide humanity’s vision.

Thinkers, scholars, and Jungian analysts are increasingly looking to C.G. Jung’s monu­mental oeuvre, The Red Book, as a source for guidance to re-enchant the world and to find a new and deeper under­standing of the homo religiosus. The essays in this series on Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions circle around this objective and offer countless points of entry into this inspiring work.

This is the fourth 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


• Robert M. Mercurio: The Red Book and our Contemporary Crises: Active Imagination, Mass Migration and Climate Change


• Heike Weis Hyder: The Burning Urgency of Psychodynamic Discoveries in The Red Book for Psychiatry and Psycho­therapy: A Key for Healing-Resonance of Soul, Love and Life


• Maria Helena R. Mandacarú Guerra: Jung’s Red Book as a Healing Symbol for Our Time


• Thomas Moore: A Book of Magic: Jung’s Red Book and the Tradition of Natural Magic


• Bruce MacLennan: Liber Novus sed non Ultimus: Neoplatonic Theurgy for Our Time


• Gary Clark: Integrating the Archaic and the Modern: The Red Book, Visual Cognitive Modali­ties and the Neuro­science of Altered States of Consciousness


• John Merchant: The Red Book as Jung’s Asclepiadean


• John Ryan Haule: Jung comes back to Himself


• Henning Weyerstrass: C.G. Jung and the Creative Unconscious


• Becca Tarnas: The Participatory Imagination


• Dale Kushner: In Extremis: Jung’s Descent into the Language of the Self 


• Karin Jironet: On the Divine and Eternal Solitude of the Star: Jung’s Seven Sermons Mirrored to Sufi Mysticism 


•  Katie Givens Kime:  "So Long As We are Not Mystics":  What the Personal Art of William James and C.G. Jung Give Us Now


•  Christian Gaillard:  The Red Book in Venice


• Kiley Q. Laughlin:  The Red Book:  A Premodern Graphic Novelty


• Mark Winborn: Liber Novus and the Metaphorical Psyche:  Revisioning The Red Book