ABSTRACT
This chapter alludes to a comparison between Jung’s early 20th-century Red Book process and a hypothesized Red Album, applying Jungian theory to acoustic phenomena. Jung’s historical relationship with music is explored leading to various approaches for understanding how psyche relates with sound. By juxtaposing visual and auditory phenomena and the associated defences the symbolic peripheral limit of the auditory sense is investigated, including related processes for mental mapping. Jung’s association experiment is referenced as a source for this exploration regarding the phenomenon of misheard words both in and out of analysis and how the musical capacity of the analytic pair can aid the teleology of the analytic enterprise.
