Begin At The Beginning: A Pilot Project To Read Jung’s Red Book: Liber Novus – Part 4

This pilot project aims to give a close and substantial reading of the first half of Book One of The Red Book : Liber Novus in four two-hour seminars. Participants will read the text aloud in each seminar, set it within its historical contexts, and consider relevant intertexts. We will consider its meaning and allow for its impact upon us personally and its implications for clinical practice. The Red Book is Jung’s presentation of his text in images, and the seminar will examine these images in detail and reflect on them. Participants are encouraged to use the break times and end of the day for informal conversation with the instructor and one another. Light refreshments will be provided. The program will not be recorded to ensure confidentiality among participants.

Part 4 will cover Chapter 5:  Descent into Hell in the  Future. 

Learning objectives:

• Describe the historical significance of Jung's Red Book: Liber Novus in the development and practice of analytic psychology.
• Describe the historical significance of Jung's Black Books.
• Describe what is meant by the term active imagination and its use in analysis.
• Give an example of how Jung utilized active imagination in his confrontation with the unconscious.
• Describe how Jung's theory of the archetypes arose from the experiences he records in Liber Novus and give a clinical example.
• Describe how Jung's theory of the collective unconscious arose from the experiences he records in Liber Novus and give a clinical example.
• Describe what Jung meant by “the objective psyche” and give a clinical example.
• Compare Jung’s Liber Novus account of initiatory experience with clinical analytic training and the practice of analysis.