Black Books

C. G. Jung (1875– 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology. Sonu Shamdasani is a professor at University College London. He lives in London. Dr. Martin Liebscher is a Principal Research Associate at the UCL Health Humanities Centre. John Peck has taught literature at Princeton, Mount Holyoke, Skidmore, and the University of Zurich, and worked as a Jungian analyst in New England for fifteen years. The author of Collected Shorter Poems and Red Strawberry Leaf, he has translated Luigi Zoja, edits for the Philemon Foundation, and lives in Connecticut.

"[The Black Books] represent the coalface of Jung’s introspection, from which he mined and polished his more accessible Red Book.… The Black Books details Jung’s visionary encounters with entities such as Phanes the star god, Ha the sorcerer, and Philemon, the wise magician who became Jung’s internal guru."