As a result of the experiences which form the basisof his Red Book, Liber Novus, Jung carefully re-defined his use of the term “symbol”, clearly differentiating it from a Freudian semiotic context. In this seminar I will compare Jung’s writing on the symbol in Chapter 20 of Liber Secundus with his more conceptually-framed definition published seven years later in Psychological Types. My aim will be to suggest how the symbol, in Jung’s sense, may inform and guide the practice of psychotherapy.

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Jung, C.G., The Red Book: Liber Novus (Readers’Edition) Liber Secundus Chapter 20 section 8, pp. 392 -395

Jung, C.G.,Psychological Types Collected Works, Vol. 6, §§ 814 - 829

Bright, G., (2002) Response to the Nymphea symposium. Journal of Analytical Psychology 47:563-566

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