Edited by Murray Stein and Thomas Arzt, the essays in the series
Jung's Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions
are geared to the recognition that the posthumous publication of
The Red Book: Liber Novus
by C.G. Jung in 2009 was a meaningful gift to our contemporary world.
The Red Book
can be considered as a contribution to the "Golden Chain" (
aurea catena
) of the world's imaginative literature reaching back to the ancient Sumerian
Epic of Gilgamesh
. As Jung describes this tradition in a letter to Max Rychner, "
Faust
is the most recent pillar in that bridge of the spirit which spans the morass of world history, beginning with the Gilgamesh epic, the
I Ching
, the Upanishads, the
Tao-te-Ching
, the fragments of Heraclitus, and continuing in the Gospel of St. John, the letters of St. Paul, in Meister Eckhart and in Dante."
extends the "Golden Chain" into our era. Each of the 18 essays in this third volume of the series,
Jung's Red Book for Our Time
, is unique, and all of them converge on the central theme of the relevance of
for people today in search of soul under postmodern conditions.
This is the third volume of a multi-volume series set up on a global and multicultural level and includes essays from the following distinguished Jungian analysts and scholars:
-
Murray Stein
and
Thomas Arzt:
Introduction
Stephen A. Aizenstat
: The Quest for One's Own
Red Book
in the Digital Age
Paul Brutsche
: The Creative Power of Soul: A Central Testimony of Jung's
Joseph Cambray
:
The
Today: From Novelty to Innovation - Not Art but Nature
Linda Carter
: Jung as Craftsman
- George B. Hogenson
: The Schreber Case and the Origins of the
- Toshio Kawai
: From Internal to Open Psyche: Overcoming Modern Consciousness?
- Samir Mahmoud
: Reading and Re-Reading Jung as a Muslim: From Traditionalist Critique to the New Possibilities of
- Christine Maillard
: C.G. Jung's Subversive Christology in
and its Meaning for Our Times
- Mathew Mather
: Jung's
and the Alchemical Coniunctio
- Patricia Michan
: The Golden Seed: The Hidden Potentiality within the Vile and the Misshapen
- Gunilla Midbøe
: Troll Music in
- Anna Milashevich
and the Black Swan: The Trickster as a Psychological Factor behind the Boom and Bust Cycle
- Velimir B. Popovic
: "I am as I am not" - The Role of Imagination in Construing Dialogical Self
- Ingrid Riedel
: Transformation of the God-Image in Jung's
: Foundations for a New Psychology of Religion
- Murray Stein
as a New Link in the
Aurea Catena
- Zanet Prinčevac de Villablanca
: The Spirit of This Time: "No One's Child", a Postmodern Fairy Tale
- Megumi Yama
: A Journey from West to East via the Realm of the Dead
- Mari Yoshikawa
: A Japanese Perspective on the Meaning of the Serpent in