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a semi-annual publication of the Fall 2007 philem n foundation Volume 2, Issue 2 JUNG HISTORY: A Semi-Annual Publication of the CONTENTS Philemon Foundation, Volume 2, Issue 2 WHO IS JUNG’S PHILEMON? AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER TO The Philemon Foundation was founded at the end of ALICE RAPHAEL : PAGE FIVE 2003, and since this time, has made critical contribu - Sonu Shamdasani tions to a number of ongoing projects preparing for publication the still unpublished works of C. G. Jung. JUNG’S HERMAPHRODITES AND THE The Foundation is grateful to its donors who have ABSENCE OF OVID : PAGE EIGHT made this work possible. Jung History, which will Barbara Zipser appear semi-annually, will provide accounts of some of the ongoing research sup ported by the Philemon C.G. JUNG’S POSITION AT THE Foundation and other news. In addition to schol - EIDGEN ÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ars funded by the Philemon Foundation, Jung History ZÜRICH (ETH ZURICH): THE SWISS FEDERAL will present reports of significant historical research INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ZURICH : and publications in the field. In recent years, an PAGE TWELVE increasing amount of new historical research on C. G. Angela Graf-Nold Jung has been undertaken, based on the study of hitherto unknown primary materials. However, the TRANSLATING JUNG : PAGE SIXTEEN Ernst Falzeder publication of such research has been widely dis - persed, which has led to the desirability of a publica - THE SOURCES OF SYSTEMA MUNDITOTIUS: tion to gather together such work and make it better MANDALAS, MYTHS AND A Jung History Jung known. sets out to fill this need. MISINTERPRETATION : PAGE TWENTY History will be freely distributed to donors, collabo - Barry Jeromson rating institutions, and interested readers. Jung History will also be available for download at JUNG ON SWEDENBORG, REDIVIVUS : www.philemonfoundation.org. For further infor - PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN mation concerning the Philemon Foundation and to Eugene Taylor receive a copy of Jung History , please send an e-mail to PATRONS AND COLLABORATING info @philemonfoundation.org. INSTITUTIONS : PAGE THIRTY-THREE The Editors — Michael Whan, Editor Sonu Shamdasani, Editor Stephen A. Martin, Editor Lily Ann Hoge, Consulting Editor Eugene Taylor, Consulting Editor Copyright for the articles in Jung History remains with the authors. Cover image: Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis, from ‘The Children's Hour: Stories from the Classics’, published by the Waverley Book Company (color litho), Brock, Charles Edmund (1870 –1938), Private Collection, The Bridgeman Art Library : from the president : page one FOUNDATION NEWS Nearly twenty years ago I so plentiful in the second volume of his collected made my first visit to Seestrasse 228, the home of Letters. Often deeply compassionate and filled with C. G. Jung. I was at the time Editor-in-Chief of empathic advice to people like me, they were a QUADRANT: The Journal of Contemporary Jungian growing fascination as I, having worked for decades Thought, and was in Zurich to visit old friends from as an analyst, felt the increasing sense of ‘not know - my training days at the Jung Institute and to meet ing much of anything.’ I felt that by diving into with Jung’s only son, Franz, who was then living at ‘Jung the man’ who expressed himself in these wise the house. In the course of this lively visit that missives, the way into my future would become focused on the question of Jung as an artist posed clearer. Who better to advise about the viability of in my introduction to an issue of QUADRANT enti - such a project than the man who was editing the Red tled “Art and Soul”, the subject of the Red Book arose. Book? Capitalizing on a planned trip to London in Perhaps naively, but emboldened by the interest of July 2003, I arranged to lunch with Dr. Shamdasani Shambala Press, publishers of a volume I co-edited in his hometown. My approach to the Red Book with my friend, Aryeh Maidenbaum, Lingering was many years in the making. Sonu Shamdasani’s Shadows: Freud, Jung and Anti-Semitism, I asked Franz journey with it is nearly as long in absolute time, Jung whether I might see the Red Book and if the but far deeper in scope and intensity. First begin - Jung heirs would consider publishing a facsimile ning work on its scholarly and historical importance edition of it. What came next was, to say the least, in 1996, his involvement in the Red Book project unexpected. Franz Jung, an otherwise genial and began in earnest in 1997, when discussions occurred gracious man, reacted sharply, nearly with anger, between the Jung Heirs and him about its possible saying to me that, in no uncertain terms, could I see publication. Miraculously, after some three years of the Red Book nor could he ever imagine that it would study, conversation and collaboration, the be published. Empathizing quickly with how star - Erbengemeinschaft C. G. Jung (Association of Heirs of C. G. tled I was, as if in consolation he handed me a small Jung) released the Red Book for publication in May notebook dense with Jung’s script. Looking through 2000. The Red Book project has been central to Dr. it, I realized that I was holding perhaps the original Shamdasani’s scholarly and personal life for over ten version of Seven Sermons to the Dead. Caught between years and I for one look forward to the time when being crushed and elated, I was speechless. It is one he will share details of his remarkable story. of the singular moments of my life, and the first Sonu and I date the conceptual formation of the time I had personally crossed paths with the Red Philemon Foundation to that fateful lunch at Book. Fast forward to the summer of 2001; I Benares, a superb Indian restaurant in Mayfair. Over was thumbing through the most recent copy of the exquisitely flavored food, he politely fielded my International Association of Jungian Analysts questions about the Red Book, listened to my own far (IAAP) newsletter, a thick publication with contri - more modest scholarly interests and finally broke butions from Jungian professional groups the world open the world of Jung when he informed me about over. At the back, in the ‘lonely hearts’ pages dedi - the staggering amount of unpublished work. From cated to books received was a simple announcement that lunch, and a sleepless night that followed, the that jolted me- that the Red Book was released for Philemon Foundation was born. It is now just publication by the Jung Heirs and was to be edited over four years later and the Philemon Foundation, by Sonu Shamdasani. I thought back to my first thanks to the help of its donors and friends, is meeting with Franz and smiled to myself, wondering actively pursuing its mission of bringing unpub - what must have happened. I sent off an e-mail to lished work by C. G. Jung to the reading public. this fellow, Shamdasani, asking “when” and received But what of the Red Book, the elusive object that a simple, direct response, “at some point.” I filed started it all? With profound pleasure I can report this knowledge under the heading, “I can’t wait!” that the newly constituted Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Skip again a few years to June 2003. For some time Jung (The C. G. Jung Foundation), the charitable succes - I had the urge to work with Jung’s correspondence, sor to the Erbengemeinschaft C. G. Jung, and with whom particularly examples that addressed ‘regular’ people, the Philemon Foundation will maintain its formal : jung history 2 :2 red book The Red Book, courtesy of the Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung relationship of cooperation negotiated under the auspices of the Erbengemeinschaft, has reached an agree - ment with W. W. Norton & Company, one of the finest, if not the finest, independent American pub - lishing houses, to publish the Red Book. Although with no firm publication date yet determined, to have it in production, readying for publication, is a singular development for all who value the work and insights of Jung, as well as for the understand - ing the intellectual history of the twentieth century. As if tailor made to convey the feel of this wonder - ful news that the Red Book will be available in the First page of the English version of Septem Sermones ad Mortuos, 1916 near future is the mission of W. W. Norton to be found on its web site, that is, to create “books that Jung to develop and refine his theory of psychologi - live.” Rightly, with the publication of the Red Book, cal types. Additional projects are the preparation of an enlivened world of Jung scholarship and deeper Jung’s Deutsches Seminar (German Seminar) of 1931 that appreciation of his importance for our psychologi - is principally clinical in perspective; the transcrip - cal lives will ensue. We at the Philemon Foundation tion and initial editorial work on Jung’s Unpubliziertes congratulate the Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung and, Buch (Unpublished Book) on alchemy; the editorial in particular, its director, Ulrich Hoerni, and all the completion of Volume One of the ETH Lectures; the Heirs of C. G. Jung, for making this longed for near completion of our ETH Transcription project dream a living reality. Besides contributing to the of approximately 100 unpublished Jung manu - Red Book project, there is much to report about scripts and an agreement in principle to begin work activities of the Philemon Foundation since our last on the extraordinary correspondence between Jung Jung History. The first sponsored volume of the and Erich Neumann.