The Red Book Reading Group: A Closer Look at Book Two, the Liber Secundus.

Daniel Ross, Boris Matthews
Start Date: 27/09/2025
End Date:23/05/2026
Scheduled course
Online, In-person

Overview

The C G Jung Institute of Chicago has proudly invited George Bright, a Jungian Analyst from the United Kingdom and IAAP recognized expert on The Red Book to join the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts, which he has accepted.  His intense work on The Red Book over several years and his teachings of the connections between The Liber Novus and Jung’s later writings are invaluable.  For the last two years we have engaged George in leading, along with Boris Matthews and Daniel Ross, a series of salons on the Red Book. We first began with a six-month overview of the whole of the Liber Novus.  This ignited a desire to go deeper and slower and so this past year we focused chapter by chapter, month by month on only the Liber Primus.

NOTE: The final session of the series, on May 23, will meet in-person at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, but Zoom will be available for those who cannot meet in-person.

Each salon will focus on a section of Liber Novus as outlined in our course description. We expect that you have and will be reading Liber Novus along with us. The facsimile which includes the paintings is more expensive but not necessary for our discussion, as it is quite expensive. We will present and discuss the images from Liber Novus during the salon sessions, so you have the option of purchasing the less expensive Reader’s Edition.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the series, attendees will be able to:

  1. Verbalize how Jung’s “I” changes in relation to the Red One and Ammonius throughout the Liber Secundus.
  2. Discuss how Izdubar and Jung’s “I” are opposites in Book Two.
  3. Describe how Jung proceeds to heal Izdubar after “poisoning” him with Western knowledge.
  4. What does Jung take from his encounter with Death in Cap. vi..
  5. Explain what Jung is told to do by his soul to atone for the murder of a child in Cap. xiii. And why must he?
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