Where Did Jung’s Red Book Come From, and Why Does It Matter?

The publication of Jung’s Red Book, Liber Novus, in 2009 challenged the Jungian world to rethink how it had received and developed Jung’s thought and therapeutic approach. In this Guild lecture, George Bright, a training and supervising analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and co-founder of the Circle of Analytical Psychology, a London group devoted to the close study of the Red Book and Black Books, places Liber Novus in the context of Jung’s life and work from 1900 to 1920. He asks how today’s readers and practitioners might reassess their understanding of Jung in its light. Guild Paper No. 333.