{"product_id":"answer-to-jung","title":"Answer to Jung","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Red Book is C.G. Jung’s record of a period of deep penetration into his unconscious mind in a process that he called ‘active imagination’, undertaken during his mid-life period. \u003ci\u003eAnswer to Jung: Making Sense of ‘The Red Book’\u003c\/i\u003e provides a close reading of this magnificent yet perplexing text and its fascinating images, and demonstrates that the fantasies in \u003ci\u003eThe Red Book\u003c\/i\u003e are not entirely original, but that their plots, characters and symbolism are remarkably similar to some of the higher degree rituals of Continental Freemasonry. It argues that the fantasies may be memories of a series of terrifying initiatory ordeals, possibly undergone in childhood, using altered or spurious versions of these Masonic rites. It then compares these initiatory scenarios with accounts of ritual trauma that have been reported since the 1980s. This is the first full-length study of \u003ci\u003eThe Red Book\u003c\/i\u003e to focus on the fantasies themselves and provide such an external explanation for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonu Shamdasani describes \u003ci\u003eThe Red Book\u003c\/i\u003e as an incomplete task that Jung left to posterity as a ‘message in a bottle’ that would someday come ashore. \u003ci\u003eAnswer to Jung\u003c\/i\u003e brings its message to shore, providing a coherent, but disturbing, interpretation of each of the fantasies and their accompanying images.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45542174687470,"sku":"9781138312395","price":50.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/answer-to-jung","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}