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book1913–1932 (published 2020)

The Black Books

Disciplines:
psychology
jung
jungian psychology/active imagination
memoir/diary

Summary

Jung's seven notebooks of active imagination from 1913–1932 — the raw source material from which the Red Book was elaborated — published in 2020 by Sonu Shamdasani, providing the unmediated record of Jung's inner dialogues.

Core Contribution

Provides the unedited record of Jung's imaginative process — the Black Books are what Jung actually wrote in the notebooks, before the selection and elaboration into the Red Book — giving scholars access to the raw material of analytical psychology's creation.

Historical Influences

C.G. Jung

Intellectual Lineage

C.G. Jung Research Küsnacht W.W. Norton Sonu Shamdasani

Allied Works

The Red Book Memories Dreams Reflections

Contemporaries & Peers

The Red Book

Minds Influenced

Jungian scholarship Jungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

The Black Books Jung's raw imagination

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