The Red Book is the most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology. When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called his "confrontation with the unconscious," the heart of it was The Red Book, a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here he developed his principle theories—of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and individuation—that transformed psychotherapy.

While Jung considered The Red Book his most important work, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, a complete facsimile and translation has been published by W.W. Norton & Company. Intended for scholars, yet accessible to the general reader, the volume has been edited by Dr. Sonu Shamdasani, General Editor of the Philemon Foundation.

This astonishing example of calligraphy and art is on a par with The Book of Kells and the illuminated manuscripts of William Blake. The publication of The Red Book is a watershed that casts new light on the origins of modern psychology.

An Exhibition, The Red Book of C. G. Jung:
Creation of a New Cosmology
October 7, 2009 to January 25, 2010at the Rubin Museum of Art, West 17th Street and Seventh Avenue
Alongside the 95-year old volume which Jung worked on from 1914-1930, the Rubin Museum will present a number of oil, chalk, and tempera paintings and preparatory sketches related to the Red Book and other original manuscripts, including the Black Books, which contain ideas and fantasies leading up to the Red Book.

Martin Brauen and Sonu Shamdasani
in Conversation
Wednesday Oct 7, 7:30 pm at The Rubin Museum of Art
Rubin Museum Chief Curator, Martin Brauen and Red Book editor, Sonu Shamdasani will discuss cross-correspondences between this exhibition and the concurrent exhibition Mandala: The Perfect Circle.

Liber Novus: The Red Book of C.G. Jung
by Sonu Shamdasani
Friday, October 9, 7:30 pm at the New York Academy of Medicine
The first public lecture on C. G. Jung's Red Book.

Liber Novus: The Red Book of C.G. Jung
by Sonu Shamdasani
Saturday, October 10th, at 8:00 pm
at the Rosenthal Pavilion, Kimmil Center, New York University
Andreas Jung, an architect, a contributor to The House of C.G. Jung and as a grandson of C.G., the current occupant of the Jung family residence, will speak of C.G. Jung's Dream Houses: The Architecture of the Human Psyche. This presentation of Jung's dreams, drawings, and construction of his houses is the third Philip T. Zabriskie Memorial Lecture in Analytical Psychology. Sponsored by The Jungian Psychoanalytic Association