The Black Books

Ten years after the landmark publication of The Red Book, the single most important unpublished work by C.G. Jung―The Black Books―finally appears.

In 1913, C.G. Jung started a unique self-experiment that he called his “confrontation with the unconscious”: an engagement with his fantasies in a waking state, which he charted in a series of notebooks referred to as The Black Books. The Red Book drew on material recorded therein from 1913 to 1916, but Jung continued to write in them for decades. The Black Books shed light on the further elaboration of Jung’s personal cosmology and his attempts to embody insights from his self-investigation into his life and personal relationships.

Presented in a magnificent, seven-volume boxed collection featuring a revelatory essay by noted Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani and both translated and facsimile versions of each notebook, The Black Books offer a unique portal into Jung’s mind and the origins of analytical psychology. Publication will resound on Jung scholarship, Jungian professional circles, the broader public, and those brought to Jung’s work through acclaim of The Red Book.