Red Book, Middle Way: How Jung Parallels the Buddha's Method for Human Integration (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781800500099)

Jung's Red Book, finally published only in 2009, is a highly ambiguous text describing a succession of extraordinary visions, together with Jung's interpretation of them. Red Book, Middle Way offers a new interpretation of Jung's Red Book, in terms of the Middle Way, as a universal principle and embodied ethic, paralleled both in the Buddha's teachings and elsewhere. Jung explicitly discusses the Middle Way in the Red Book (although this has been largely ignored by scholars so far) as well as offering lots of material that can be understood in its terms. This book interprets the Red Book in relation to the archetypes met in its visions - the hero, the feminine, the Shadow, God and Christ, and follows Jung's process of integrating these different internal figures. To do this Jung needs to find the Middle Way between absolutes at every point, in a way similar to the Buddha.

Author: Robert M. Ellis
ISBN-10: 1800500092
ISBN-13: 9781800500099
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2020
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/28/2020