Exhibit: the Professional Library of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado, July 2015

Exhibit: The Professional Library of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado A. The Johnson-Budington Library B. Notable Books From Our Library C. The Jeffrey Raff Alchemical Collection D. The History of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado E. Jungians in Colorado F. Books by Institute Analysts G. First Issues of Jungian Journals H. Journals Featuring Jungian Analysts I. Pamphlets and Jungian Literature J. Pamphlets and Women’s Writing K. Other Media L. Autographed Books M. Other Jungian Authors from Colorado A. THE JOHNSON-BUDINGTON LIBRARY The C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado's library was founded in 2004 with a substantial gift from Irma Johnson-Budington and her husband, Bill Budington. They were well-known and influential members of the Jungian community in Colorado Springs. The collection was enlarged by donations from the personal collections of other prominent Colorado Jungians, such as Wallace and Jean Clift (co-founders, with Linda Leonard, of the Jung Society of Colorado in 1976) and Glen and Jean Carlson (analysts and Emeritus board members of our institute). We have also received donations of entire collections from other Jungian groups from across the country. The collection is housed within the offices of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado. It is available by appointment for in-house research and book loans to analysts, students of the institute, and members of the Jung Society of Colorado. Janis Page, who was a cataloging specialist for many years at the Auraria Library, professionally manages the library with the use of the Readerware database program. The library houses almost 2000 cataloged books, not counting multiple copies, which would add several hundred more to that total. A number of the books are collector's items, and about two dozen have been autographed by the authors. We're very proud to house "a library within a library" - Jeffrey Raff's alchemy collection, rare and beautiful books that he gathered over many years. There are about two hundred books, journals, and other publications. Beyond books, the library includes a wide number of pamphlets, and even a Jungian Tarot deck. There is a large collection of dvds related to Jung, from Matter of Heart and The Way of the Dream to the collection Remembering Jung. There is also a large selection of audiotapes, primarily of lectures given over the years at the C.G. Jung Society of Colorado. The Institute carries subscriptions to many current publications related to Jungian psychology. These include Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, The Journal of Analytical Psychology, Harvest Journal, Parabola, and Psychological Perspectives (co-edited by Margaret Johnson, a member of our institute). Many of these periodicals have been collected into bound volumes for our shelves. The Johnson-Budington Library is a full library, with selections from every corner of the Library of Congress universe. It includes fiction, poetry, and even a few picture books. The greater part of the collection, of course, is made up of books by and about C.G. Jung. There are several complete sets of Jung's Collected Works, with the most copies of a single title by Jung being the various editions of Memories, Dreams, Reflections. While we live in the Internet Age, with web resources continuing to grow, much of our collection is not present anywhere online. Real "brick-and-mortar" libraries like ours are the only place to find many of these important texts. B. NOTABLE BOOKS FROM OUR LIBRARY 1. THE MYTHOLOGY OF GREECE AND ROME: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS USE IN ART By Otto SeeMann This volume, from 1881, is the very oldest volume (that is, not republished) in the Institute library. This is the English edition. Otto Seemann (1825-1901) published the original German edition, Die gottesdienstlichen gebräuche der Griechen und Römer, in Leipzig in 1874. Seeman’s work in Europe, with Bullfinch’s Mythology (1881) in America, was the progenitor of mythography as a literary genre. This led to such books as Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (1942) and The Greek Myths by Robert Graves (1955). The first English edition presents this preface from the translator: “If any should be inclined to ask what Mythology has to do with men of the present day, the reply is plain… There is hardly any literature in Europe which has not been more or less colored by these legends; and in our own day their power to inspire the poet has by no means ceased. Nay, they have incorporated themselves into our very language: ‘Herculean strength’ is almost as common an expression now as it was two thousand years ago; and we still talk of ‘chimerical" expectations,’ describe a man as ‘tantalized,’ and use the Sphinx as the symbol of the mysterious.” 2. PSYCHOLOGY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS By C.G. Jung and Beatrice M. Hinkle This is our library’s oldest copy of a book by C.G. Jung himself. Moffat, Yard and Company published this volume in 1916 in New York. It is the first English translation (by Hinkle) of Jung’s 1912 work. The full title is Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido, a Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought. It was later rewritten by Jung as Symbols of Transformation, and is Volume Five of his Collected Works. This work marks in print the divergence between Jung and Freud, and its publication led to the break between the two men. Jung wrote, "This book became a landmark, set up on the spot where two ways divided. Because of its imperfections and its incompleteness it laid down the program to be followed for the next few decades of my life." The writing shows Jung in the “first exciting bloom of his extraordinary journey into the unconscious," according to Joseph C. Mark, Princeton. 3. CREATIVE CONFLICT By Elined Prys Kotschnig This 1969 work is the shortest volume in our library. It is only seven pages long! It’s a good example of how profound writing can be found in a diminutive presentation. Elined Prys Kotschnig, a Quaker and Jungian analyst, was the editor of Inward Light, a biannual journal sponsored by the Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology. Kotschnig trained in Zürich with C.G. Jung in the early 1930’s, and again after World War Two. She founded and edited Inward Light in 1937 and wrote many articles published within its pages, including “Jung on the Survival of Consciousness” (1963) and “Quakers and C.G. Jung” (1975). She wrote about Emma Jung in C. G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff - A Collection of Remembrances, published by the Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco, 1982. Inward Light was published to "be an organ of expression and intercommunication among those concerned with cultivating the inner life and relating it to the problems of our time." It featured articles about psychology and comparative religion, and published Jungian authors such as Joseph Campbell. The journal is no longer published, but the Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology continues to sponsor an annual three-day conference “to examine the ways Jungian psychology interacts with Quaker beliefs.” 4. RAVEN STEALS THE LIGHT: NATIVE AMERICAN TALES By Robert Bringhurst and Bill Reid The very tiniest book in our library is a collaboration between acclaimed artist Reid (1920-1998) and author Bringhurst (b. 1946), one of Canada's finest poets. There are ten stories and ten illustrations drawn from the myths of the Haidas, Native Americans living along Canada’s northwest coast. The book includes an introduction by the distinguished anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. The reviewer from Canadian Literature wrote, "These are simply the best versions of [these] tales I have read: they are colloquial yet poetic, precise yet spilling outside their boundaries, accumulating and then blending into one another." 5. & 6. SNOW WHITE: LIFE ALMOST LOST By Theodor Seifert, 1986 SOURCES: SYNCHRONICITY READINGS FOR DEALING WITH LIFE’S ISSUES By Strephon Kaplan Williams, 1984 Two more very small Jungian books! 7. THE RED BOOK: LIBER NOVUS By C.G. Jung, 1915-1930/2009 This, of course, is the biggest book in our library! It could perhaps be rather easily called the biggest book in Jungian publishing. It has been described as “the most famous and influential unpublished work in the history of psychology” (NYT). This facsimile edition of Jung’s legendary work was published in 2009 with an English translation. It included a lengthy introduction by Jungian scholar Sonu Shamdasani, not to mention more than 1500 footnotes. Over 400 pages long, weighing nine pounds, and selling for about $195.00 each, the book nevertheless became a surprise bestseller. It reached No. 18 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction list, a remarkable fact given the expense of the book. The first printing of just 5,000 copies quickly sold out, and had to be extended to a run of 10,000 and then 50,000 copies. The pages were printed in Italy on museum-quality paper and so the book could not be produced quickly. In 2010, the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado presented a well-received seminar with Shamdasani at the University of Denver. 8. BIBLIOTHECA CHEMICA CURIOSA By Jean Jacques Manget This is our library’s longest book at 1840 pages. It was first published in Chouet, Geneva, in 1702. This edition is part of the Jeffrey Raff Alchemical Collection. Jean Jacques Manget (1652-1742) was a physician from Geneva. He was also sometimes known as Johann Jacob Mangetus. The son of a merchant, he graduated from the University of Valence in 1678.

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