{"product_id":"jung-in-love-the-mysterium-in-liber-novus-9780692578278","title":"Jung in Love: The Mysterium in Liber Novus","description":"\u003cp\u003eLove was the great mystery in C. G. Jung's life. His confrontation with love for a woman and a feminine soul animated the composition of Jung's great \u003cem\u003eRed Book\u003c\/em\u003e, the book he formally titled \u003cem\u003eLiber Novus\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC. G. Jung's relationships with women during these central years of life have generated several commentaries and critiques. But the power and depth of love has figured little in most of the romances about this period patched together by biographers, dramatists, and psychoanalysts. In consequence, a crux experience of Jung's life has been miscast and little understood. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree decades after the events chronicled in his \u003cem\u003eRed Book\u003c\/em\u003e, C. G. Jung turned to writing a commentary on the still hidden records. In \u003cem\u003eJung in Love\u003c\/em\u003e, Lance Owens illustrates how Jung's four last books -- his \"last quartet\" of major works published after 1945 -- are summary statements about his experiences during the years he labored with \u003cem\u003eLiber Novus\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOwens illustrates how in the first volume of this \"last quartet\" -- \u003cem\u003eThe Psychology of the Transference\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1946 -- Jung employed a sixteenth-century alchemical text to provide context for what is in fact a statement about his own experience with love recounted both in his private journals and in \u003cem\u003eLiber Novus\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on long-sequestered documentary sources, \u003cem\u003eJung in Love \u003c\/em\u003e offers a balanced and historically contextualized account of Jung's relationships with four women during the years that led him into the visionary experiences recorded in the \u003cem\u003eRed Book\u003c\/em\u003e Emma Jung-Rauschenbach, Sabina Spielrein, Maria Moltzer and Toni Wolff.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJung in Love - The Mysterium in Liber Novus\u003c\/em\u003e was originally published as a chapter in \u003cem\u003eDas Rote Buch - C. G. Jungs Reise zum anderen Pol der Welt\u003c\/em\u003e, ed. Thomas Arzt (Verlag K nigshausen \u0026amp; Neumann, 2015). This English monograph edition adds illustrations and minor corrections to the previously published edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eC. G. Jung on Love (from \u003cem\u003eJung in Love - The Mysterium in Liber Novus\u003c\/em\u003e): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is my misfortune that I cannot live without the joy of love, of tempestuous, ever-changing love in my life.\u003cbr\u003e - 1908, \u003cem\u003eLetter to Sabina Spielrein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Salome loves me, do I love her? I hear wild music, a tambourine, a sultry moonlit night, the bloody-staring head of the holy one - fear seizes me.\u003cbr\u003e - 1914, \u003cem\u003eLiber Novus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Who exhausts the mystery of love? ... There are those who love men, and those who love the souls of men, and those who love their own soul. Such a one is PHILEMON, the host of the Gods.\u003cbr\u003e - 1914, \u003cem\u003eLiber Novus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e What occurs between the lover and the beloved is the entire fullness of the Godhead. Both are unfathomable riddles to each other. For who understands the Godhead?\u003cbr\u003e - 1920, \u003cem\u003eBlack Book Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The problem of love seems to me a monster of a mountain which, for all my experience, has always soared to still greater heights whenever I thought I had almost reached the top.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003e1922, \u003cem\u003eLetter to Theodor Bovet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e I falter before the task of finding the language which might ade- quately express the incalculable paradoxes of love.\u003cbr\u003e - 1961, \u003cem\u003eMemories, Dreams, Reflections\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLance S. Owens is an historian and a physician in clinical practice. Since publication of Jung's \u003cem\u003eRed Book: Liber Novus\u003c\/em\u003e in 2009, Dr. Owens has published several studies focused on Jung's extraordinary visionary experience. His lectures and seminars on the Jung and the \u003cem\u003eRed Book\u003c\/em\u003e (available online) have been enjoyed by many thousands of listeners. A catalog of his publications and audio lectures is available at: gnosis.org\/Lance-Owens\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gnosis Archive Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412866765074,"sku":"9780692578278","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_be6b1f36-5bc5-4e3f-92d3-e3148667e466.jpg?v=1729331817","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jung-in-love-the-mysterium-in-liber-novus-9780692578278","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}