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The Black Books are a collection of seven private journals recorded by Carl Gustav Jung principally between 1913 and 1932; they have been referred to as the "Black Books" due to the color of the final five journals' covers (the first two journals actually have a brown cover; the first of the seven journal was recorded prior to 1902 and has not been made available for study). The portion of the journal account that is of main interest begins in the second of the seven journals, on the night of 12 November 1913; journal entries continue for several following year and fill the next six notebooks. In these notebooks C. G. Jung recorded his imaginative and visionary experiences during the transformative period that has been called his "confrontation with the unconscious."〔Jung, Carl Gustav (1961). Aniela Jaffe, ed. ''Memories, Dreams, Reflections''. pp. 170–198.〕 This ledger of experiences was the foundation for the text of Jung's ''Red Book''. The majority of the journal entries were made prior to 1920, however Jung continued to make occasional entries up until at least 1932.〔''The Black Books of C.G. Jung (1913-1932)'', ed. Sonu Shamdasani, (Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung & W. W. Norton & Company), publication date pending〕 Though the "Black Books" are referenced and occasionally quoted by Sonu Shamdasani in his editorial apparatus to ''The Red Book: Liber Novus'',〔Jung, C. G., ''The Red Book: Liber Novus''. Ed. S. Shamdasani, tr. M. Kyburz, J. Peck and S. Shamdasani. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06567-1〕 the journals have otherwise previously been unavailable for study.〔Shamdasani explains the nature of the "Black Books", and provides high-resolution photographs of these journals in: Shamdasani, ''C. G. Jung: A Biography in Books'', pp. 63-73.〕 ==Context and content== Jung referred to his imaginative or visionary venture recorded in the "Black Book" journals as "my most difficult experiment."〔''Liber Novus'', pp. 198-202.〕 This experiment involved a voluntary confrontation with the unconscious through willful engagement of what Jung later termed "mythopoetic imagination".〔''Liber Novus'', pg. 208.〕 The events and visions were recorded nightly in the "Black Book" journals. The journal record of this experience begins on 12 November 1913 with this petition, penned by Jung: My soul, my soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you–are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again....Do you still know me? How long the separation lasted! Everything has become so different. And how did I find you? How strange my journey was! What words should I use to tell you on what twisted paths a good star has guided me to you? Give me your hand, my almost forgotten soul. How warm the joy at seeing you again, you long disavowed soul. Life has led me back to you. ... My soul, my journey should continue with you. I will wander with you and ascend to my solitude.〔C.G. Jung, ''The Red Book: Liber Novus'', ed. Sonu Shamdasani, tr. John Peck, Mark Kyburz, and Sonu Shamdasani (WW Norton & Co, 2009), p. 232〕 The record continues with increasing intensity through the summer of 1914. A hiatus in the journal entries came between June 1914 and late summer of 1915. During this period Jung drafted his first manuscript of ''Liber Novus''. After the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Jung perceived that his visionary experiences during the prior year had been not only of personal relevance, but entwined with a crucial cultural moment. In late-1914 and 1915 he compiled the visions from the three so-far completed journals, adding a commentary on each imaginative episode, into a draft manuscript. This draft text was the beginning of the ''Red Book'' — ''Liber Novus''.〔See Shamdasani's introduction to the ''Red Book: Liber Novus'' for detailed explanation of this effort: ''Liber Novus'', pp. 198-203.〕 Then in August 1915, after completing the first draft of ''Liber Novus'', the visionary events and journal entries began again. By 1916, Jung had filled six of the seven journals. Entries become more sporadic after about 1920, but occasional entries were added to the seventh and last "Black Book" through at least 1932.〔"The Black Books" are currently being edited for publication: ''The Black Books of C.G. Jung (1913-1932)'', ed. Sonu Shamdasani, (Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung & W. W. Norton & Company), publication date pending.〕 Biographer Barbara Hannah, who was close to Jung throughout the last three decades of his life, compared Jung's imaginative experiences recounted in his journals to the encounter of Menelaus with Proteus in the ''Odyssey.'' Jung, she said, "made it a rule never to let a figure or figures that he encountered leave until they had told him why they had appeared to him." In his introduction to ''Liber Novus'', Shamdasani explains: "From December 1913 onward, he carried on in the same procedure: deliberately evoking a fantasy in a waking state, and then entering into it as into a drama. These fantasies may be understood as a type of dramatized thinking in pictorial form.... In retrospect, he recalled that his scientific question was to see what took place when he switched off consciousness. The example of dreams indicated the existence of background activity, and he wanted to give this a possibility of emerging, just as one does when taking mescaline."〔''Liber Novus'', pg. 200.〕 Jung recorded these deliberately evoked fantasies or visions in the "Black Books". These journals are Jung's contemporaneous clinical ledger to his "most difficult experiment", or what he later describes as "a voyage of discovery to the other pole of the world."〔Lance S. Owens, "The Hermeneutics of Vision: C. G. Jung and ''Liber Novus''", ''The Gnostic: A Journal of Gnosticism, Western Esotericism and Spirituality'' Issue 3, July 2010. ISBN 978-1906834043 Online edition, pg. 2 https://www.academia.edu/6922849/The_Hermeneutics_of_Vision_C._G._Jung_and_Liber_Novus〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black Books (Jung)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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