The Black Books: 1913-1932 : Notebooks of Transformation [7 VOLUME BOXED SET]. Philemon Series.

Jung, C. G. (author); Sonu Shamdasani (editor)

ISBN 10: 0393088642 / ISBN 13: 9780393088649

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2020

7-volume quarto. (slipcase = 12-3/4" x 9-1/2"). Each volume is bound in black cloth with blind lettered front covers and gilt lettered spines. Housed in publisher's custom made thick, black cardboard slipcase with a large paper label mounted on the front cover. In addition to the editor's essay,each of the 7 volumes have been reproduced in a color facsimile of the original notebooks and have an accompanying English translation. A fine, as new, set. "Until now, the single most important unpublished work by C.G. Jung (1875-1961) -The Black Books. In 1913, C.G. Jung started a unique self- experiment that he called his "confrontation with the unconscious": an engagement with his fantasies in a waking state, which he charted in a series of notebooks referred to as The Black Books. These intimate writings shed light on the further elaboration of Jung's personal cosmology and his attempts to embody insights from his self- investigation into his life and personal relationships. The Red Book drew on material recorded from 1913 to 1916, but Jung actively kept the notebooks for many more decades. Presented in a magnificent, seven-volume boxed collection featuring a revelatory essay by noted Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani-illuminated by a selection of Jung's vibrant visual works-and both translated and facsimile versions of each notebook, The Black Books offer a unique portal into Jung's mind and the origins of analytical psychology" (Publisher) Contents: Volume 1: Toward a Visionary Science: Jung's Notebooks of Transformation; Editorial Note; Translating Jung's Runes / Sonu Shamdasani -- Volume 2: Book 2: November 12-December 29, 1913 -- Volume 3: Book 3: December 30, 1913-January 14, 1914 -- Volume 4: Book 4: January 14-March 9,1914 -- Volume 5: Book 5: March 13, 1914-January 30, 1916 -- Volume 6: Book 6: January 30, 1916-May 21, 1917 -- Volume 7: Book 7: May 21, 1917-December 15,1932. Seller Inventory # 53394

Synopsis:

Until now, the single most important unpublished work by C.G. Jung―The Black Books.

In 1913, C.G. Jung started a unique self- experiment that he called his “confrontation with the unconscious”: an engagement with his fantasies in a waking state, which he charted in a series of notebooks referred to as The Black Books. These intimate writings shed light on the further elaboration of Jung’s personal cosmology and his attempts to embody insights from his self- investigation into his life and personal relationships. The Red Book drew on material recorded from 1913 to 1916, but Jung actively kept the notebooks for many more decades.

Presented in a magnificent, seven-volume boxed collection featuring a revelatory essay by noted Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani―illuminated by a selection of Jung’s vibrant visual works―and both translated and facsimile versions of each notebook, The Black Books offer a unique portal into Jung’s mind and the origins of analytical psychology.

Facsimile reproductions throughout

About the Authors: 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Black Books: 1913-1932 : Notebooks of ...
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: fine
Edition: First edition thus.