For years, people only heard whispers of Carl Jung鈥檚 The Red Book or Liber Novus. But it was real, and now we can all see the Swiss psychologist at work on his own psyche. His elaborate writing and the drawings show what many now believe shaped Jung’s theories on archetypes, the collective unconscious and the process of becoming an individual.
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