The final conversations revolve around what has become of psychology over the decade since Jung began his explorations into the psyche. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me.

So there must be spiritual disciplines for the soul, ways in which soul shall conform with models enunciated for it by spirit. Jungian psychology is about excavating the most repressed parts of self and learning to hold them so that we can know exactly who and what we are.He saw it as a dead end for experiential psychology and retreated back into analytical inventorying of “archetypes”. Power in business, politics and the world of work, to most people, implies competition, domination, control and reward. Hillman’s interest in The Red Book was enough to make him swallow his pride, and many previous statements, enough to join the Jungians again. This curious book is the record of 15 conversations between the late James Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani, editor and translator of Jung's Red Book. I'm the Red Book, discovers and travels with the archetypes, and constructs his own mythology and psychology from this experiences of the writing of the Red Book.

For Hillman the dead are artists and storytellers, the scholars who inform his work on every page (his footnotes and "excurses" are one of the chief pleasures of his writing). If you are familiar with the Jung's ideas of archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation, and want to know more, then this conversation between two prominent Jungians can help you. More importantly, the process of writing The Red Book was one of the most formative periods of Jung’s life.

For the remainder of his career he would use the experience to build concepts and theories about the unconscious and repressed parts of the human mind. Many of the obvious elements and events for a discussion of the enormous Red Book are completely ignored in the dialogue. I read it all the way there on the airplane and all the way back, finishing it as we flew down across Canada and North America pacing the setting sun. This, along with the advantages conferred by mirror neurons, which allow us to intuit what others may be thinking, contributed to our ability to learn, pass on inventions to future generations and improve our problem-solving ability.

Miller, Transcendent Function: Jung's Model of Psychological Growth Through Dialogue with the Unconscious, was a more suitable choice for me. At times lacking focus (as is the nature of conversation), but also bristling with insights into Jung's creative process. Many Jungian analysts would leave the Jungian institutes through the 70, 80s and 90s to start somatic and experiential psychology that used Jung as a map but the connection between the body and the brain as a technique. Jung also despised the practice of eastern mysticism practices by westerners but admired it in Easterners.I also saw them devoid of a practical technique or application for a world where years of analysis cost more than most trauma patients will make in a lifetime.

They are David Tacey, John Beebe, Sonu Shamdasani, Carl Jung, Fritz Perls, Karen Horney, and Hal Stone. We need the coldness of death to see clearly", interestingly Hillman died during the production of this book. G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical Psychology, which won the Gradiva Prize of the World Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in 1999 for the best historical and biographical work. Written in a similar voice to the King James Bible, The Red Book has a religious and transcendent quality.From this dramatic but poorly developed restatement of Jungian mysticism, the authors proceed through sketchy, meandering discussions that touch on Jung’s testy relationship with Christianity, the obscurantism of latter-day Jungian analysts, and the need to infuse the Red Book’s literary, humanistic approach into psychology’s current scientistic model.