Jung's Red Book for Our Time

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