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The Red Book: A Reader's Edition Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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An audio edition of the famous Red Book text and essay.

The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung's later works. It was here that he developed his principal theories of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation that would transform psychotherapy from treatment of the sick into a means for the higher development of the personality.

As Sara Corbett wrote in the New York Times, The creation of one of modern history's true visionaries, The Red Book is a singular work, outside of categorization. As an inquiry into what it means to be human, it transcends the history of psychoanalysis and underscores Jung's place among revolutionary thinkers like Marx, Orwell and, of course, Freud.

The Red Book: A Reader's Edition features Sonu Shamdasani's introductory essay and the full translation of Jung's vital work in one audiobook. The Red Book is skillfully narrated by Mike Fraser. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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  1. Listening Length
    20 hours and 16 minutes
  2. Author
    C. G. Jung, see all
  3. Narrator
    Mike Fraser
  4. Audible release date
    June 24 2024
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
  7. ASIN
    B0D7QSK82Q
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Product details

Listening Length 20 hours and 16 minutes
Author C. G. Jung, Sonu Shamdasani - editor translator
Narrator Mike Fraser
Audible.ca Release Date June 24 2024
Publisher Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B0D7QSK82Q
Best Sellers Rank #1,013 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#7 in Arts & Photography Books: Artists
#8 in Jungian Psychology
#13 in Psychoanalysis (Books)

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Katherine Vacek
5.0 out of 5 stars All I expected and more
Reviewed in Canada on January 22, 2014
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This book is an absolute necessity in any Jung lovers collection. When it arrived the size of the box blew me away, this is by no means a book you can put in your pocket or carry around with you for some light reading on the bus (or fit on most bookshelves for that matter..), it is one you basically have to keep out in the open, on a coffee table or something, but be ready to answer everyone's question "What IS that...?" when they come visit your abode. This book was worth every penny and I would even purchase a second copy just to have one I could kind of get worked-in and well loved and one just to keep pristine out of respect of it's awe-inspiringness. The pages are just beautifully glossy and thick (Oh the pages...)and it is extremely well-bound. If you are a fan of well made books this one will be a perfect addition to your collection.

For the Jung fans, this is a must have. If you're just getting into Jung I would purchase it anyways. The book includes an introduction to Jung and gives you a bit of a backstory if you had no idea what you were doing when you bought this book or you decided you wanted to get right into Jung full right away. Its very well written and contains a lot of good information and it's quite a few pages long. The book includes Jung's original manuscript which honestly I would pay the $200.00 for even without translation; it's THAT breathtaking. The magnificence of his paintings and calligraphy work will put you in a daze. The colours, the symbols, the precision and time it must have took... I could go on forever about how beautiful it is. I have yet to get through the whole book, it's not the kind of thing you can read in a night. If you really want an insight into what the universal mind looks like this is the book for you.
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D. Leclerc
5.0 out of 5 stars It’s beautiful
Reviewed in Canada on July 3, 2024
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Wow! I purchased the reader’s edition and wanted to see the artworks that goes with it. I choose the Liber Novus because « why not » and I simply love it. The first part of the book is sopy of the original book, Jung handwritten texts and paintings, the second part is the translation. I HUGE! Love it :D
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Mr. T. Pace
5.0 out of 5 stars A Waking Dream Journal
Reviewed in Canada on July 9, 2018
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The Red Book by C.G. Jung is at the top of my list for most complex books read so far. My review title "A Waking Dream Journal" summarizes it unfairly, superficially, but as simple as it gets. The polar opposite of the material.

At times it flows easily, at other times it requires picking apart word by word, sentence by sentence. The book is divided into several major sections, an Introduction, a first "book" (Liber Primus), a second book (Liber Secundus) and a third book (Scrutinies). As Dr Sonu Shamdasani writes in the introduction, the work is a detailed account of the long-term process of individuation.

Dr Sonu Shamdasani wrote the elaborate 100-page Introduction to The Red Book. I began my study on The Red Book Reader's Edition by reading the introduction, and realized it would be good to study, just this introduction! So commenced profuse note-taking, paper and pencil in hand. A reader will receive back on whatever effort one invests in the study. Certainly consider a focussed read of the Introduction and one may expand the awareness and understanding ten-fold.

The urge to add the full facsimile edition to my library was overwhelming, so that came along a month or two later: the quality of the painting and calligraphy allows for very tight focussed study, even benefiting from a magnifying glass. This is not a book for adults. Neither, certainly, is it a book for children. It is a book for humanity.

As said, I'm studying the material initially through the Reader's Edition. Among many of Jung's pioneering concepts, I have found what seems to be a singular origin for Jung's awareness of the collective unconscious. There is also enough material that can be supporting and aligning to his correspondence with Hans Schmid-Guisan on psychological "types".

As for the content: Liber Primus, "The Way of What Is To Come", reads easily. It leads into Liber Secundus "The Images of the Erring", which follows mostly the same structure but the underlying spirit of the author becomes far more complicated. For example... in the final paragraph of the final chapter of The Way of What Is To Come, Jung concludes, with reference to a previous chapter: "The mystery showed me in images what I should afterward live. I did not possess any of those boons that the mystery showed me, for I still had to earn all of them."

To my reading and understanding, Liber Primus forms a rough map of meaning into the future, and Liber Secundus sketches out the plan, preparation and some progress, including pitfalls, self-doubt, celebration in the way of his navigating that map, from Liber Primus. Liber Secundus shows great investigation and experimentation, but also we find the author rotating, oscillating, between opposites in many dimensions. Secundus closes with a great anguish with the battle between seeking God and the transcendent and absolute versus Satan and earth and chaotic life, living in an in-between, balance, static, or moving, and how the movement is experienced. Material continues into Scrutinies.

I encourage any very serious student of cosmology, theology, natural science, computer science, to invest the time, get a copy of The Red Book Liber Novus.
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L. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars one of the greatest art objects of the 20th century
Reviewed in Canada on December 16, 2020
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The Red Book is an incomparable work of 20th century art. Enough has been written about its narrative already, so I don't want to get into that. As a book of art it is inspiring and contains multitudes. It is both primitive, amateur, refined and complex. It charts years in the life of an impressive thinker and artist, and it's difficult to look at this and not feel compelled to personally self-express, and to find value in that self-expression.

That said, this book is physically enormous. It is almost impossible to read handheld. It's designed to lay open flat across a desk or table. Due to its exorbitant cost it is almost impossible to take it out to read without fearing that it will somehow be ruined. All of these things should also be kept in mind before purchasing. The Red Book will probably be the biggest book you ever own.
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Rohit singh
5.0 out of 5 stars Transformative
Reviewed in Canada on January 13, 2024
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Im reading this and rereading the gospels... hits hard.
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Allan Bent
4.0 out of 5 stars It's deep!
Reviewed in Canada on July 22, 2023
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Good so far, it'll take a while to read & absorb
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must have
Reviewed in Canada on June 21, 2022
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Great text and layout. Spine and binding were good. The only possible drawback for the purchaser is that this is a "readers" copy, so it does not have the painting inserts referred to in the text. This doesn't diminish the read or clarity. This is a extremely cost effective alternative.
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Amaranta
5.0 out of 5 stars Libro esotérico?
Reviewed in Mexico on May 5, 2024
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Se lo regalé a mi papá y por el precio / calidad realmente vale la pena, lo amo.
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Anka
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in Sweden on May 27, 2024
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Just buy it and order one to a dear friend while you at it. Its a true masterpiece should be in every bookshelf.
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Joao Baraona
5.0 out of 5 stars Rapidez na entrega
Reviewed in Spain on January 22, 2023
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Rapidez na entrega, bem embalado e em óptimo estado, exactamente como anunciado.
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andrea bottazzi
5.0 out of 5 stars Puntualità consegna perfetta
Reviewed in Italy on January 7, 2023
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Tt ok
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Liz De Souza
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
Reviewed in Germany on November 19, 2022
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Very worthy quality
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