This seminar will focus on Jung’s encounter with Izdubar, the Babylonian Bull Man. Written during 1914, the text encompasses many major themes in Liber Novus: the sickness of western materialist culture, the mythical wisdom of the east, the decline and rebirth of the god, man’s primary role in the renewal of the new god image for a new age, and the importance of the symbol and visual imagery. Jung created its paintings in The Red Book between December 1915 and February1917, during one of his most creative writing periods, when he first began to publish his new ideas about analytical psychology.

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Diane is a Senior Training Analyst with the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists. She is one of the founders of the London Circle of Analytical Psychology, which organises seminars on Jung’s Red Book over a two-year cycle. She is also an art historian, having written extensively on Italian Medieval and Renaissance art. Her essays on Jung’s art related to The Red Book years have appeared in The Art of C.G. Jung (2019), and Phanes - Journal for Jung History (2019 and 2020). She is currently writing a book themed around Jung’s first English seminars in 1919 and 1920.   

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Reading:

Jung, C. G., The Red Book Liber Novus, ed. S. Shamdasani, trans. M. Kyburz, J. Peck, S.Shamdasani, New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company (2009): pp. 277-314.

Paintings:

Jung, C. G., The Red Book Liber Novus, ed S.Shamdasani, trans. M. Kyburz, J. Peck, S. Shamdasani, New York and London: W.W.Norton & Company (2009), facsimile pages 36-70.

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