Sonu Shamdasani - Liber Novus: Jung's Descent into Hell

Sonu Shamdasani is Professor in Jung History in the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (German) at University College London, and Vice-Dean (International) of the Arts and Humanities Faculty. He is the co-director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre.
Shamdasani edited for its initial publication a major work of Jung: The Red Book, Liber Novus. Although well known by its title, until 2009 its contents had remained hidden from the public.
By 2000 Shamdasani had arranged to begin work editing Jung's The Red Book. In 2003 he stepped in as Editor of the Philemon Foundation's successful project to publish, in 2009, this much awaited volume. Although Jung had worked on the writing and the designs for it between 1914 and 1930, he did not then have it published. In 1959 Jung added a short Epilogue to his Red Book, commenting on his 'confrontation with the unconscious' that started prior to World War I: "It could have developed into [madness] had I not been able to hold the overpowering force of the original experiences. ... I knew of nothing better than to write them down... and to paint the images that appeared when reliving it all--as well as I could."
Shamdasani describes Jung's unusual work as "the book that stands at the center of his oeuvre" which "has long been recognized as the key to comprehending Jung." The Red Book (Liber Novus) "was at the center of Jung's self-experimentation." Earlier Shamdasani stated:
"If one does not place Jung's confrontation with the unconscious in a proper perspective, or understand the significance of the Red Book, one is in no place to understand fully Jung's intellectual development from 1913 onwards, and not only that, but his life as well: it was his inner life which dictated his movements in the world. ... For Jung's work on his fantasies in Black Books and the Red Book formed the core of his later work, as he himself contended. The Red Book is at the center of Jung's life and work. [Understanding Jung] without an accurate account of it would be like writing the life of Dante without the Commedia, or Goethe without Faust."
The heirs of Jung for many decades held the original manuscript of the Red Book. They were against its publication and declined such offers. Shamdasani's research during the 1990s, however, had discovered the existence of text from the Book outside the family's control. Another transcription was found by Marie-Louise von Franz. It was demonstrated that Jung had sent a copy of his manuscript to a publisher. Shamdasani entered into delicate negotiations with Jung's descendants in Zürich and, in May 2000, obtained their agreement "to release the work for publication". His editing tasks then began.

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The Red Book, Liber Novus by C. G. Jung, edited by Sonu Shamdasani: https://amzn.to/30eVeDL

Carl Gustav Jung - The Way of What is to Come: https://youtu.be/uh1LKZpjb7A

James Hillman - The Red Book: Jung and the Profoundly Personal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBQWN0fL430

Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung's Red Book by Sonu Shamdasani and James Hillman: https://amzn.to/39Y5On5

Reading The Red Book: An Interpretive Guide to C.G. Jung's Liber Novus by Sanford L. Drob: https://amzn.to/35xwck4

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