ABSTRACT

Just like the scientific and biographic vicissitudes of Tausk, Ferenczi and Carl Jung that could be other emblematic evidence of these symptomatic segregations. In Jung’s perspective, the contexts that anticipated the most current developments of post-Freudian psychoanalysis seemed to have been split or dissociated and stored there. In a troubled and painful time of his life-between 1912/1913 and 1916/1917 – Jung was absorbed in what he called a work with and on his own unconscious. He decided to record all of his thoughts, fantasies, dreams and visions of those years in his Black Book at first and then to copy them in a Gothic calligraphic script, like medieval manuscripts, into a book bound in red leather: the Red Book. The Red Book is the proposal of a method: it points the way and outlines the direction of a path of personal individuation.