The Red Book

The most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology.

The Washington Post - Michael Dirda

…recalls an allegorical-mythological amalgam of Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra, Blake's illuminated poems, Renaissance Neoplatonic dialogue, Eastern scripture, Dante's Inferno, Yeats's "A Vision" and even the biblical book of Revelation…certainly one of the most distinctive gift books of the upcoming holiday season. With a rich crimson dust jacket, thick cream-colored paper and calligraphied pages, this huge tome is the size of a lectern Bible and looks like the kind of spell book a wizard might consult …In short, this is a volume that will be treasured by the confirmed Jungian or by admirers of beautifully made books or by those with a taste for philosophical allegory.

Born in 1875, C. G. Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and innovative thinker whose most influential ideas include the concept of psychological archetypes, the collective unconscious, and synchronicity. He is the author of numerous works, including Memories, Dreams, Reflections and Man and His Symbols. He died in 1961.

Sonu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology and psychiatry and the Philemon Professor of Jung History at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, and the general editor of the Philemon Foundation. He is the author of several books, including Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science. He lives in London.

Sonu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology and psychiatry and the Philemon Professor of Jung History at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, and the general editor of the Philemon Foundation. He is the author of several books, including Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science. He lives in London.

Mark Kyburz, Ph.D., specializes in German into English scholarly translation. Over the past twenty years, he has translated numerous books and articles in various areas of the humanities and social sciences. He is currently working on the lectures that C. G. Jung delivered at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule from 1933 to 1941. He lives in Zürich.

John Peck has taught literature at Princeton, Mount Holyoke, Skidmore, and the University of Zurich, and worked as a Jungian analyst in New England for fifteen years. The author of Collected Shorter Poems and Red Strawberry Leaf, he has translated Luigi Zoja, edits for the Philemon Foundation, and lives in Connecticut.

Sonu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology and psychiatry and the Philemon Professor of Jung History at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, and the general editor of the Philemon Foundation. He is the author of several books, including Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science. He lives in London.