ABSTRACT
A series of philosophical distillations about very difficult subjects, and written in very difficult times, Jung's Red Book sparks, for many of them, enormous resistance. It seems improbable that there would have been a Red Book at all, had Jung not broken free of his prestigious role as Freud's chosen son. The catastrophic events of the Great War helped Jung to understand more clearly why he had had to unmoor himself from the psychoanalytic worldview. To them, it's at least as remarkable that Jung, so gifted at extraverted thinking, made a space in his psyche for Philemon as that Philemon made a space in his home for the gods. In this way, The Red Book is in the Protestant tradition, a work of conscience trying to reform and redeem Christianity with the recognition that, as puts it, 'Conscience demands, ultimately that all the gods be served'.
