C. G. Jung (1875– 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology. Sonu Shamdasani is a professor at University College London. He lives in London. Dr. Martin Liebscher is a Principal Research Associate at the UCL Health Humanities Centre. 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.
"[The Black Books] represent the coalface of Jung’s introspection,
from which he mined and polished his more accessible Red Book.… The
Black Books details Jung’s visionary encounters with entities such
as Phanes the star god, Ha the sorcerer, and Philemon, the wise
magician who became Jung’s internal guru."
*Phil Baker - Times Literary Supplement*
"The hundreds of thousands who have bought the Red Book and have
profited from studying it will in all probability also read the
Black Books and this will add to the urgency in the professional
analytic world for analysts to integrate an understanding of these
primary sources for interpreting and teaching Jung’s legacy... This
first edition of the Black Books in seven separate volumes has been
prepared with exemplary care. The first volume is a stand-alone
Introduction which will repay careful reading and re-reading for
contextual guidance through the six notebooks. Each of these is
presented in facsimile form followed by English translation,
providing as close an experience as is possible to handling the
original books, right down to front and back end papers which
replicate the originals. High quality paper, smart red silk
headbands and a substantial slip-case give this the aesthetics of a
luxury edition to complement the exemplary style of the facsimile
Red Book edition."
*Journal of Analytical Psychology*
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