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“The main content of Jung’s private library was contemporary literature of the 19th and 20th century, mainly about medicine, psychiatry, psychology and philosophy. Additionally there are a great number of books on antique cultures, gnosis, christian symbols, eastern religion, ethnology and occultism. The library also contains a collection of about 300 rare books (printed before 1800) on alchemy, theurgy and kabbala, as well as antique literature on dreams, writings of church fathers and of the latin and greek classic.”

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The Composition of Liber Novus

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1 week 3 days ago #17 by Charles
The Composition of Liber Novus was created by Charles
After the realization that his active imaginations and fantasies were a reflection of the events of the world at large Jung started on a new work. A work designed to take his personal writings and put them in a form that could be published.  Two readings influenced him in these efforts:  Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche and the Commedia of Dante.  Perhaps Zarathustra and Virgil were models for Philemon? In re-reading his journals he seeks to connect his personal events with those of the world. Here is the development and application of new methods. Part of this is the recovery of the mythopoeic imagination. {Is this not also what Tolkien was also doing as he began writing the Silmarillion?

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