Editing Carl Jung (section)

====''The Black Books and The Red Book''====
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[[File:The_Red_Book_-_Liber_Novus.jpg|thumb|left|The Red Book resting on Jung's desk]]
In 1913, at the age of 38, Jung experienced a horrible "confrontation with the unconscious". He saw visions and heard voices. He worried at times that he was "menaced by a psychosis" or was "doing a schizophrenia". He decided that it was a valuable experience and, in private, he induced hallucinations or, in his words, a process of "[[active imagination]]". He recorded everything he experienced in small journals, which Jung referred to in the singular as his ''[[Black Books (Jung)|Black Book]]'',<ref name="blackbooks">{{cite book |last1=Jung |first1=Carl |editor1-last=Shamdasani |editor1-first=Sonu |title=The Black Books of C.G. Jung (1913–1932) |date=October 2020 |publisher=Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung & W. W. Norton & Company |at=Volume 1 page 113 |section=Editors Note}}</ref> considering it a "single integral whole", even though some of these original journals have a brown cover.<ref name="blackbooks" />  The material Jung wrote was subjected to several edits, hand-written and typed, including another, "second layer" of text, his continual psychological interpretations during the process of editing.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jung |first1=C.G. |title=The Red Book Reader's Edition |date=2012 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |pages=105–110 |chapter=Editor's Note}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jung |first1=C.G. |title=The Red Book |date=2009 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |pages=225–226 |chapter=Editor's Note}}</ref>  Around 1915, Jung commissioned a large red leather-bound book,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jung |first1=C.G. |title=The Red Book |date=2009 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |page=203 |chapter=Introduction}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jung |first1=C.G. |title=The Red Book Reader's Edition |date=2012 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |page=32 |chapter=Introduction}}</ref> and began to transcribe his notes and paint, working intermittently for sixteen years.<ref name="Corbett">{{cite news|author=Corbett, Sara|title=The Holy Grail of the Unconscious|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/magazine/20jung-t.html|date=16 September 2009|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=20 September 2009}}</ref>

Jung left no posthumous instructions about the final disposition of what he called the ''Liber Novus'' or ''Red Book''. [[Sonu Shamdasani]], a historian of psychology from London, tried for three years to persuade Jung's resistant heirs to have it published. Ulrich Hoerni, Jung's grandson who manages the Jung archives, decided to publish it when the necessary additional funds were raised through the [[Philemon Foundation]].<ref name="Corbett"/>  Up to September 2008, fewer than about two dozen people had ever seen it.

In 2007, two technicians for DigitalFusion, working with New York City publishers [[W. W. Norton & Company]], scanned the manuscript with a 10,200-pixel scanner. It was published on 7 October 2009 in German, with a "separate English translation along with Shamdasani's introduction and footnotes" at the back of the book. According to Sara Corbett, reviewing the text for ''[[The New York Times]]'', "The book is bombastic, baroque and like so much else about Carl Jung, a willful oddity, synched with an [[antediluvian]] and mystical reality."<ref name="Corbett"/>

The [[Rubin Museum of Art]] in New York City displayed Jung's ''Red Book'' leather folio, as well as some of his original "Black Book" journals, from 7 October 2009 to 15 February 2010.<ref name="Rubin">{{cite web|url=http://www.rmanyc.org/nav/exhibitions/view/308 |title=The Red Book of C. G. Jung |publisher=Rubin Museum of Art |access-date=20 September 2009  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711195944/http://www.rmanyc.org/nav/exhibitions/view/308 |archive-date=11 July 2009 }}</ref> According to them, "During the period in which he worked on this book Jung developed his principal theories of archetypes, collective unconscious, and the process of individuation." Two-thirds of the pages bear Jung's [[illuminated manuscript|illuminations]] and illustrations to the text.<ref name="Rubin" />