![]() Light and dark, on swift journey between the gates of the sun and the land Gods to Men, the mercurial messenger imaged in his planetary aspect: a tinyĬelestial luminosity visible only occasionally in twilight hours between Hermes was the interpreter of the words of the “Behind the word ‘hermeneut’ resided a mythic and symbolic history He faces not only the hermeneutics of a vision, but of himself as hermeneut.” But there is another vital and complex issue that must be considered: Jung had received a revelation. “I have mentioned very briefly two aspects of Jung’s approach to the interpretation of his experience -how he worked the stone in his roles as physician and as scientist. This was an intensely focused and deeply considered interpretive process.” … Now he needed to give this experience firm form. “From the very beginning of his journey in November 1913, Jung struggled with an interpretive task: translating his imaginative encounters-his visions-into words. The demiurge was deposed: daylight consciousness was not the sole creator of the real.” The shatteringįact that Jung knew is that the ego sacrificed all sovereignty in the experience. That would imply the sovereignty of the granting observer. I do not say ‘granting reality’ to the experience. Grasping the independent reality of imaginal voice and vision, and “The key is immersion and involvement in the mythopoetic imagination: Jung titled it Liber Novus, ‘The New Book.'” Meine Seele, meine Seele, wo bist Du? – My soul, my soul, where are you? – Jung’s Black Book Journal entry of 12 November 1913 (via Wikipedia) With great artistic craft-employing antique illuminated calligraphic text and stunning artwork- Jung labored for sixteen years translating the primary record of his experience from the black books into an elegant folio-sized leather-bound volume: this is the famous but long-sequestered Red Book. These journals might be best described as his primary and contemporaneous ledger of a voyage of discovery into imaginative and visionary reality, what he termed ‘my most difficult experiment.’ By 1915, as the magnitude of his experience penetrated him, he felt the need for a more formal and elaborate recording of the visions. “First, there were six sequentially dated journals, known as the “black books,” which he began this night in November of 1913 and continued through the early 1920s. It all started for Jung on 12 November 1913, when his soul called to him, which resulted in him starting to chronicle his inner experience in a black notebook. I hope this will help you to situate The Black Books (published last year) and The Red Book chronologically as well as gain an insight into Jung’s unique hermeneutic method. You can download it here along with other interesting materials available at here.īelow you can find a collection of crucial excerpts from the above-mentioned essay. ![]() Before I continue my journey through Jung’s Red Book, I would like to draw your attention to an excellent essay by Lance S.
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