Carl Gustav Jung

In the world of Journals there are certain works that stand out as benchmarks.  Oscar Wilde, Leonardo DaVinci, Anne Frank. None of these has been as intriguing to me as the secret Diary of Carl Jung.  Well let’s face it, if you put the word “Secret” in front of anything it automatically becomes intriguing, right?

I have often read about the secret diary, or the Red Book, as its sometimes called, in works of historical fiction or speculative histories.  Being a total mystery, the book lends itself easy to plot devices of all sorts.

Jung took himself on a deliberate adventure into his own world of unconsciousness and spirituality and recorded it all beautifully in his Red Book.  It is from this adventure that he developed the majority of his ideas on psychology.  He explores the ideas of Archetypes, Collective Unconscious, and Anima/Animas.  It’s all in there.

From the images I’ve seen he did this in a very beautiful and focused manner.  The few pages I’ve seen on the Internet look like the pages of a medieval manuscript, complete with calligraphy and illumination.

Here are some Quick Links to use if you want to check it out.

Some images are here on the World of Psychology page

A review of the upcoming publication of the book at  Amazon

A cool little work of fiction that utilizes the red book as a plot device is The Voynich Project: Nephilim Rising