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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 Return of the Dead

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1 week 2 days ago #19 by Charles
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The Psychological Club was founded in 1916; a place to “overcome the limitations of one-to-one analysis and to provide a venue where patients could learn to adapt to social situations” to quote Shamdasani. A key theme in Liber Novus is the need to encounter the dead, to have a right relation with the dead.

In an entry from January 16, 1916 Jung’s soul presents him with a cosmology. An element of this is that the nature of man is to strive for absolute individuality.  Jung had studied the literature on Gnosticism starting in 1913. He saw a similarity between the era of the early church and the modern epoch. The result of this was the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos - (Seven Sermons of the Dead) which he had printed as a book where he named Basilides in Alexandria as the author.

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