"The Black Books and the Bollingen Tower: Before and After Jung's Red Book"
A discussion with Jung’s great-grandson, Daniel Baumann
Sunday, November 22nd
10-11:30am PST
Event will be hosted online.
A recording will also be sent to all registrants within 24 hours of the live salon.
Before The Red Book, the illuminated manuscript of C.G. Jung’s “confrontation with the unconscious,” there were the Black Books, the notebooks of Jung’s years-long dialogue with inner figures and thus, the foundation of what was to become Analytical Psychology. These black notebooks captured Jung’s experimentation with inner dialogue and the development of Active Imagination, a core technique of Jung’s psychology. Recorded primarily between 1913 and 1917, these recently published works provide even more insight into Jung’s psychology and personal history than we have had with the extraordinary Red Book.
After The Red Book, as Jung was finishing the compilation of this massive calligraphic text, bound in red leather and illuminated with countless detailed paintings, he began to manifest the visions from his encounter with the unconscious in physical, three-dimensional form. Jung purchased land on a lakeshore near Zurich in the early 1920s and began to build a structure that has come to be known as Bollingen Tower. According to Red Book editor, Sonu Shamdasani: “The tower may be regarded as a three-dimensional continuation of Liber Novus” (reader, p. 78). Bollingen Tower the third iteration of Jung’s magnum opus and inner journey.
In this salon, Jung’s great-grandson, former President of CG Jung Institute Zürich, and master architect, Daniel Baumann, will be in discussion with Salome Institute director, Satya Doyle Byock, about the full journey from Jung’s Black Books, to The Red Book, to Bollingen Tower, a place he loves dearly. There is no better guide to take us on this journey.
You can hear a wonderful interview with Daniel Baumann in NPR’s story on The Red Book in 2009.
About Daniel Baumann
In addition to being a senior architect, Head of Construction Area A, and a Member of the Executive Board at the Building Authority of the Canton of Zurich, Daniel Baumann was previously the owner and director of his own architectural firm in Zürich, Switzerland for thirty years. As C.G. Jung’s great-grandson, Daniel has thoughtfully navigated his relationship to the Jungian world and his own lineage since his teen years. He has served in multiple roles within the CG Jung Institute Zürich, including as President for five years, and as a member of the Curatorium from 2000 to 2012. Since 2012 he has served as a member of the Institute’s patronage. From 2015 to 2019 Daniel has served on the Board of Directors for the CG Jung Foundation Zurich, an internationally supporting foundation for Analytical Psychology to which he remains connected today as a Friend of the Board. In 2010, Daniel was a co-organizer of the Zurich Red Book exhibition at the Rietberg Museum Zurich. In 2011 he was a co-organizer of the 50th anniversary of Jung’s death in Zurich, with an accompanying academic program. Daniel has also led a number of guided tours for official groups to Bollingen Tower, including students from the Jung Institute Zurich and Pacifica Graduate Institute. Throughout his life, Daniel has spent a great deal of time at Bollingen Tower, a place he has loved both as an architect and as a descendent of C.G. Jung.
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This is a recording of a live salon from November 22, 2020.
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