The Red Book (Hardcover)

저:칼 구스타프 융
칼 구스타브 융(Carl Gustav Jung)은 스위스의 정신과 의사이자 분석심리학(分析心理學)의 창시자이다.

1875년 스위스 북동부 작은 마을에서 목사의 아들로 태어났고, 스위스 바젤 대학 의학부를 졸업한 후 1900년 취리히대학 부속 부르크흴츨리 정신병원의 E.블로일러 교수 밑에서 정신의학을 전공하였다. 1904년경 정신분석의 유효성을 제일 먼저 인식하고 연상실험을 창시하여, S.프로이트가 말하는 억압된 것을 입증하고, ‘콤플렉스’라 이름붙였다. 이어 1906년 정신분열병의 증상을 이해하는 데에 정신분석이 유효하다는 것을 증명하였다. 1908년 4월 오스트리아의 잘츠부르크에서 개최된 최초의 국제정신분석학회 제창자가 되었으며, 이 회의에서 발행키로 결정한 기관지 《정신분석학 ·정신병리학 연구연보》의 편자(編者)로 뽑혔다. 1907년 이후에는 프로이트와 공동작업을 하기도 하며 한 때 프로이트의 정신분석학파의 핵심인물로 활동하였고, 프로이트의 후계자로 여겼찌만 성격과 견해 차이로 인하여 5년만에 결별했다.

그는 ‘리비도’라고 하는 개념을 성적(性的)이 아닌 일반적인 에너지라고 하였기 때문에 프로이트와 의견이 대립되어, 1914년에 정신분석학회를 탈퇴하고, 독자적으로 무의식세계를 탐구하여 분석심리학설을 제창하기에 이르렀다. 그는 어린시절부터 경험한 강렬한 꿈과 환상 등 자신의 신비한 경험을 집중적으로 기록하고 연구하면서 신화와 역사, 연금술에 심리학적인 의미를 부여했다.

그는 자기자신의 무의식과 수많은 사람들의 심리분석작업을 통해서 얻은 방대한 경험자료를 토대로, 원시종족의 심성과 여러 문화권의 신화, 민담, 동서양의 철학과 사상, 종교현상들을 비교 고찰한 결과, 인간심성에는 자아의식과 개인적 특성을 가진 무의식 너머에 의식의 뿌리이며 정신활동의 원천이고 인류 보편의 원초적 행동 유형인 많은 원형(原型)들로 이루어진 집단적 무의식의 층이 있음을 확인하였다. 모든 정신 활동의 원천으로 그 속에는 마음의 분열을 지양하고 통일된 마음을 실현하도록 촉진시키는 자가 조정의 중심핵이 작동하고 있다고 했다. 즉, 모든 사람의 무의식 속에서 의식의 일방성을 자율적으로 보상하고 개체로 하여금 통일된 전체를 실현케 하는 핵심적인 능력을 갖춘 원형 즉, 자기원형이 작동하고 있음을 증명하였다.

그의 학설은 병리적 현상의 이해와 치료뿐 아니라 이른 바 건강한 사람의 마음의 뿌리를 보다 깊고 넓게 이해하고 모든 인간의 자기통찰을 돕는데 이바지하고 있으며 , 시대적 문화, 사회적 현상의 심리적 배경을 이해하는 기초로서 정신의학이나 심리학, 신학, 신화, 민담학, 민족학, 종교심리학, 에술, 문학은 물론 물리, 수학등 자연과학에 이르기까지 깊은 영향을 끼쳤왔다.

만년에 융은 역사를 꿰뚫어보는 시사논평으로도 명성을 얻었으며, 1961년 85세를 일기로 퀴스나흐트에서 죽었다. 융은 심혼(心魂)의 의사(Seelenarzt)로서 자기실현의 가설을 몸소 실천하였을 뿐 아니라 20세기 유럽이 낳은 정신 과학자 중에서 동양사상(東洋思想)을 누구보다도 깊이 이해함으로써 동서(東西)에 다리를 놓았으며, 새 천년(千年)에 인류가 무엇을 보고 어떻게 살아야 할 것인가를 제시한 인물이었다.

대표적인 저술로는 『정신분석의 이론』, 『심리학과 종교』, 『영혼을 찾는 현대인』, 『심리학적 유형』, 『미발견의 자아』, 『심리학과 연금술』, 『인간과 상징』 등이 있다.

A complete facsimile and translation of a previously unpublished influential collection of writings created by the pioneering psychotherapist between 1914 and 1930 is comprised of his principle theories about archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation.The most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology.When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called his “confrontation with the unconscious,” the heart of it was The Red Book, a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here he developed his principle theories--of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation--that transformed psychotherapy from a practice concerned with treatment of the sick into a means for higher development of the personality.While Jung considered The Red Book to be his most important work, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to scholars and the general public. It is an astonishing example of calligraphy and art on a par with The Book of Kells and the illuminated manuscripts of William Blake. This publication of The Red Book is a watershed that will cast new light on the making of modern psychology. This exact facsimile of The Red Book reveals not only an extraordinary mind at work but also the hand of a gifted artist and calligrapher. Interspersed among more than two hundred lovely illuminated pages are paintings whose influences range from Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East to the native art of the new world. The Red Book, much like the handcrafted "Books of Hours" from the Middle Ages, is unique. Both in terms of its place in Jungs development and as a work of art, its publication is a landmark."The years, of which I have spoken to you, when I pursued the inner images,were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived fromthis. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entirelife consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious andflooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was thestuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely theouter classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. Butthe numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then."These are the words of the psychologist C. G. Jung in 1957, referring to the decades he worked on The Red Book from 1914 to 1930. Although its existence has been known for more than eighty years, The Red Book was never published or made available to the wide audience of Jung's students and followers. Nothing less than the central book of Jung's oeuvre, it is being published now in a full facsimile edition with a contextual essay and notes by the noted Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani and translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani.It will now be possible to study Jung's self-experimentation through primary documentation rather than fantasy, gossip, and speculation, and to grasp the genesis of his later work. For nearly a century, such a reading has simply not been possible, and the vast literature on his life and work has lacked access to the single most important document. This publication opens the possibility of a new era in understanding Jung's work. It provides a unique window into how he recovered his soul and constituted a psychology. It is possibly the most influential hitherto unpublished work in the history of psychology.This exact facsimile of The Red Book reveals not only an extraordinary mind at work but also the hand of a gifted artist and calligrapher. Interspersed among more than two hundred lovely illuminated pages are paintings whose influences range from Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East to the native art of the new world. The Red Book, much like the handcrafted "Books of Hours" from the Middle Ages, is unique. Both in terms of its place in Jung's development and as a work of art, its publication is a landmark.“The years, of which I have spoken to you, when I pursued the inner images,were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived fromthis. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entirelife consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious andflooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was thestuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely theouter classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. Butthe numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then.”These are the words of the psychologist C. G. Jung in 1957, referring to the decades he worked on The Red Book from 1914 to 1930. Although its existence has been known for more than eighty years, The Red Book was never published or made available to the wide audience of Jung's students and followers. Nothing less than the central book of Jung's oeuvre, it is being published now in a full facsimile edition with a contextual essay and notes by the noted Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani and translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani.It will now be possible to study Jung's self-experimentation through primary documentation rather than fantasy, gossip, and speculation, and to grasp the genesis of his later work. For nearly a century, such a reading has simply not been possible, and the vast literature on his life and work has lacked access to the single most important document. This publication opens the possibility of a new era in understanding Jung's work. It provides a unique window into how he recovered his soul and constituted a psychology. It is possibly the most influential hitherto unpublished work in the history of psychology.This exact facsimile of The Red Book reveals not only an extraordinary mind at work but also the hand of a gifted artist and calligrapher. Interspersed among more than two hundred lovely illuminated pages are paintings whose influences range from Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East to the native art of the new world. The Red Book, much like the handcrafted “Books of Hours” from the Middle Ages, is unique. Both in terms of its place in Jung's development and as a work of art, its publication is a landmark.