The Red Book

Jung's illustrated manuscript — kept private during his lifetime and published only in 2009 — containing his active imaginations from 1914–1930, in which he descended into the unconscious, encountered archetypal figures (Philemon, Elijah, Salome), and derived the core concepts of analytical psychology from lived experience.

Documents the empirical basis of Jung's psychology — the Red Book is the record of the 'confrontation with the unconscious' that produced every major concept of analytical psychology — and its publication transformed Jung studies by revealing the visionary source beneath the scientific-looking Collected Works.