The Red Book of C.G. Jung
October 07–January 25
Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street New York, New York 10011
This unprecedented exhibition marks the first public presentation of the preeminent psychologist C. G. Jung’s (1875-1961) famous Red Book. In the book Jung developed his principal theories of archetypes, collective unconscious, and the process of individuation. Many contemporary scholars regard the text as the most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology. More than two-thirds of the large, red, leather-bound manuscript’s pages are filled with Jung’s brightly hued and striking graphic forms paired with his thoughts written in a beautiful, illuminated style. Jung was fascinated by the mandala—an artistic representation of the inner and outer cosmos used in Tibetan Buddhism to help practitioners reach enlightenment—and used mandala structures in a number of his own works. Jung’s first known mandala-like work, Systema mundi totius (1916), will be on display. Created between 1914 and 1930, the Red Book has never before been seen in public, outside the circle of Jung’s family and very close friends. Alongside the 95-year-old volume will be a number of oil, chalk, and tempera paintings and preparatory sketches related to it and other original manuscripts, including the Black Books, which contain ideas and fantasies leading up to the Red Book. The exhibition coincides with W.W. Norton & Company’s publication of a facsimile and translation of the Red Book.
More info: rmanyc.org
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The 'Big Deal' this week is the publishing of Jung's "Red Book." Personally I think it's like walking backwards in time; not necessary. Jung, working with the physicist Pauli, (1932-1958) came up with appropriate conclusions about 'acausal reality.' The letters were published under title, "atom and archetype." The main theme is the nature of "number archetypes" which Jung concluded is the most primal archetype of order in the human mind. "it is here that the most fruitful field of further investigation might be found" said Jung.... http://plus.maths.org/issue51/reviews/book1/index.html In the new tv show, "flash forward" the premise is that every human on earth loses 2 minutes and 17 seconds of consciousness, or, as stated on the show, 137 seconds. The same number that Jung and Pauli discussed, and commented on in the above url.... "man has need of the word, but in essence number is sacred." Jung.... "numomathematics" New York
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