Depth Psychology, Jung and the Red Book
Four-Camera Video, illustrated with slides, a 96 minute DVD.
In this presentation to the Jung Club of Orange County in June 2009 and held at Chapman University in Orange, California, Dr. Hoeller traces the root origins and the development of Depth Psychology all the way through to its watershed moment, the release of the Red Book in October 2009.
The Red Book is a derived from Jung's inner experiences which began around 1913. Over a period of years, 1330 pages of handwritten text and colorful illustrative images came forth from Jung's pen and brush. From these, Jung selected several hundred pages and had them bound in red leather, from whence the book's name is derived. Jung stated to the Dutch poet Roland Holst that his book on Psychological Types was written entirely on the basis of thirty pages from the Red Book.
The only archetypal imaginative material akin to the contents of the Red Book previously released to the public was the treatise "Seven Sermons to the Dead", written by Jung under visionary inspiration in four evenings between December 15, 1916 and February 16th, 1917.
Dr. Hoeller's book "The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead" (1982) earned him a letter of thanks from Jung's son Franz in 1989, who described the book as representing Jung's position with faithful accuracy. An original copy of the Seven Sermons to the Dead (Septem Sermones ad Mortuos), privately printed by Jung was sent as a gift to Dr. Hoeller by the late Franz Jung. The Editor of the Red Book, Sonu Shamdasani, spoke with Dr. Hoeller regarding both of these works, and described them in this way: "If the Seven Sermons is like an island, then the Red Book is like a vast continent." Dr. Shamdasani has quoted Dr. Hoeller in the footnotes of The Red Book!
In this lecture Dr. Hoeller describes the content and background that are needed to begin the exploration of the "Red Book". The narrative moves from Mesmerism to Magnetic Healing and Hypnotism, from Theosophical and Spiritualist influences to Freud and Breuer, from the Jungian Mythologists to Jung and beyond him to his mystical teacher Philemon. A must for all who are interested in C.G. Jung and his Red Book. Don't even dream of opening the Red Book without having experienced this presentation!
A Presentation on DVD for $19.95, available both in NTSC format (America, Japan and other countries) and PAL format (European and other countries). PLEASE NOTE that this was recorded in NTSC video, and the PAL version is a derivative. Therefore if your DVD playback environment can accommodate NTSC, then choose it over PAL!
