Privilege as Blind Spot: Carl Jung, The Red Book, and the"Collective Unconscious"

Authors

Laura L. M. Fair-Schulz, Department of Fine Art and Department of Psychology State University of New York College at Potsdam
William E. Herman, Department of Fine Art and Department of Psychology State University of New York College at Potsdam

Keywords

Switzerland, Swiss history, European history

Abstract

Carl Gustav Jung's monumental Liber Novus or The Red Book journal, begun in 1914 and published posthumously in 2009, presents the viewer with a dazzling array of painted images. 1 The project references both his accumulated and specialized knowledge as a theorist and practitioner of psychoanalysis, as well as the personal explorations of his own "subconscious" mind . It also reveals contextually his privilege of being able to undertake such a work.

Recommended Citation

Fair-Schulz, Laura L. M. and Herman, William E. (2017) "Privilege as Blind Spot: Carl Jung, The Red Book, and the"Collective Unconscious"," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol. 53: No. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review/vol53/iss1/4