ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 gives a brief description of Jung’s typology. Chapter 2 shows how closely religious themes are fused with the most important theoretical constructs of Jung’s personality theory. I now turn to Jung’s seminal book Psychological Types ( C W 6 1921). This chapter explores the relationship between the book Psychological Types and the religious themes and ideas of transformation expressed during the same period in Liber Novus, The Red Book , Jung’s illustrated journal of active imagination. The second part of the chapter focuses on two examples taken from Liber Novus to illustrate the similarities of themes being worked out in Jung’s personal experience and in his presentation of his theory of personality in Psychological Types. My purpose is to show why Psychological Types is only fully comprehensible when it is understood as a dual text which conceals within a landscape drawn from world literature a theory of personality that was in fact derived from personal experience.
