"The most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology. When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called his "confrontation with the unconscious", the heart of it was The Red Book, a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here he developed his principle theories of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation that transformed psychotherapy from a practice concerned with treatment of the sick into a means for higher development of the personality.
While Jung considered The Red Book to be his most important work, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to scholars and the general public. It is an astonishing example of calligraphy and art on a par with The Book of Kells and the illuminated manuscripts of William Blake."
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