ABSTRACT
Fernando Pessoa's Fausto is the first major twentieth-century adaptation of the Faust myth. Its eponymous hero finds himself confronted by several other imaginal figures. Fausto is one of the most candid self-analyses ever written with a view to eventual performance and publication. Pessoa's Fausto is a work of literature that takes a scalpel to its author's inner processes. The story of Faust is widely regarded as one of the great modern myths, along with Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Robinson Crusoe. The Red Book is also an experiment in self-analysis. Like Pessoa, Jung seeks to explore the deepest levels of his inner experience. The Red Book begins with Jung's acknowledging that, until a month or so previously, he had been misguidedly labouring under the spirit of this time. It presents a scholar with a challenge to discover other aspects of life. The Red Book covers a trajectory surprisingly similar to Goethe's Faust.
