Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung's Red Book

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The author uses Grandin's struggle to overcome autistic social handicaps as a model for the necessity for everyone to create a deceptive social mask.

It is a study of psychology and where it stands with the recent publication of Jung's previously unknown 'Red Book,' and what it portends, which is "the end of psychology" as consciousness rises to an intuitive level that is too intuitive to reveal. A. in psychology, and I've spent the rest of my time on Earth discovering what consciousness is about. Widely regarded as one of the most influential psychologists in history, Jung wrote and illustrated his Red Book between 1914 and 1930, but it wasn’t until 2009 that his heirs allowed the text to be published for a wide readership. His new psychology never really came together coherently and he never found the technique to validate his instincts.In other works this led to a didactic and self righteous tone that his writing is largely worse for. Hillman’s interest in The Red Book was enough to make him swallow his pride, and many previous statements, enough to join the Jungians again.

Much like a socratic dialogue or a film script the the authors act more as characters and archetypes than essayists. We discuss the ideas and life of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (pronounced YOONG), and all things Jungian. In this book of dialogues, James Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani reassess psychology, history, and creativity through the lens of Carl Jung's Red Book. Kahneman continually refers to System 2 as “lazy”: We don’t want to think rigorously about something.He viewed it as problematic when the symbols of religion became concretized and people took them literally. Hillman, the founder of Archetypal Psychology, was one of the most prominent psychologists in America and is widely acknowledged as the most original figure to emerge from Jung’s school. Jung's The Red Book was only published in 2009 after over seventy years gathering dust, and James Hillman passed away in 2011. Sonu Shamdasani is the perfect living dialogue partner for Hillman to have in the talks that make up Lament.