The Red Book Hours

A unique study of and reference work on Carl Gustav Jung's monumental Red Book (Liber Novus)

In 1913, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and theorist Carl Gustav Jung (18751961) experienced powerful visions, often terrifying. However, seeing their great potential value he found ways to encourage further visions and fantasies. Over many years, he recorded his experiences in a series of small journals, added commentaries and transcribed them, using calligraphy and illuminations, into a large, red, leather-bound volume, commonly known as The Red Book. Jung never published the Liber Novus, as he called this pivotal part of his oeuvre, and left no instructions for its final disposition, and it therefore remained unpublished until recently.

The large format, leather-bound volume of The Red Book Hours complements the facsimile edition and English-language translation of The Red Book, published in 2009, and draws out insights into Jung's affinity with art as a means of personal insight. Psychologist and multimedia artist Jill Mellick documents copious research into Jung's choices regarding media and technique and his careful design of environments in which he could experience creative processes and allow unconscious content to flow forth. Her unlikely journey includes explorations of memory, serendipity, and science. A stunning interplay of texts and images includes magnifications of the wildly colorful and intricately detailed sketches from The Red Book and a selection of Jung's own pigments, never seen until now, The Red Book Hours presents a more comprehensive picture than ever before of the foundational psychoanalyst's experience and expression of his rich inner world.

• Eine einmalige Untersuchung von C.G. Jungs «Rotem Buch» (Liber Novus)
• Ein unvergleichlicher Referenzband zu diesem Schlüsselwerk des bedeutenden Psychiaters und Psychoanalytikers
• Dokumentiert umfassende Forschung zu Jungs Umgang und Erfahrung mit Kreativität und seiner Wahl von Medien und Techniken

• Mehr als 900 bisher unveröffentlichte Abbildungen, die uns durch Jungs Augen blicken und seine kreativen Prozesse erfahren lassen

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  Jill Mellick ist Jung'sche Psychologin und Multimediakünstlerin. Sie lebt in Palo Alto, Kalifornien.