children’s dreams

jung-white letters
red book

bringing to publication the complete works of c. g. jung

C. G. Jung is one of the most significant, well-known and
controversial figures in the history of psychology and modern culture. Yet
the understanding of his thought rests on a textual corpus that is incomplete
and flawed. The mission of the Philemon Foundation is to make the
compete body of Jung’s work available in editions that meet the highest
standards of scholarship and do justice to the true measure of this major
creative thinker. S The Philemon Foundation aims to bring to publication
the complete work of C. G. Jung, which will include manuscripts, seminars,
and correspondences numbering in the tens of thousands of pages. The
historical, clinical and cultural importance of this material equals the
importance of that which has already been published and in some instances
surpasses it. Given the volume of material in various public and private
archives, we estimate that our work will yield at least 30 volumes beyond
the 21 volumes of the Collected Works and will require 25 years to fulfill.
S Thus a major task of the foundation is to raise the funds needed
to support this enormous undertaking. Your tax-deductible donation is
vital to the realization of this long-term goal. S The success of the
Philemon Foundation’s mission depends on the generosity of farsighted
donors who recognize the importance of Jung’s work as a means through
which we can understand the depth and complexity of life, both individual
and collective. Jung’s writing and wisdom can be fully understood only when
the entirety of his work is made available in a scholarly historical edition.
I
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG
N 1945, the project for a Collected Works
of C. G. Jung commenced, funded by the
Bollingen Foundation, and edited by Gerhard
Adler, Michael Fordham and Herbert Read
and translated by R. F. C. Hull. William
McGuire later became the executive editor.
The original intention of the editors was to publish a
complete edition of Jung’s works. In the United States,
the volumes were published as part of the Bollingen
Series and in the United Kingdom they were published
by Routledge and Kegan Paul. At Jung’s request, the
plan for the German edition of his works, edited by
Marianne Niehus-Jung, Lena Hurwitz Eisner, Franz
Riklin Jr. and Leonie Zander, followed that of the
English edition, together with the editorial apparatus.
Over several decades, twenty-one volumes of Jung’s
writings were published, supplemented by seven
volumes of seminars (eight in German), two volumes
of letters, and the Freud-Jung letters. It is generally
thought that the bulk of Jung’s work has been
published. However, this is far from being the case.
Unbeknownst to most people, an enormous body of
Jung’s work remains unpublished to this day.
THE FOUNDATION’S WORK
The Philemon Foundation began most unexpectedly in the summer
of 2003. During a visit to London, Stephen Martin, a Jungian
analyst from the Philadelphia area, took the opportunity to meet
Sonu Shamdasani, the well-known Jung scholar. Martin knew, as
did the wider Jungian community, that Shamdasani had been long
at work editing the legendary Red Book, Jung’s hand illuminated
chronicle of his inner journey. Martin also wanted advice about a
correspondence project that might focus on Jung’s rich interchange
with “ordinary people” during the last few decades of his life.
At a memorable lunch in Mayfair, Martin asked about the progress
of the Red Book and wondered if enough unpublished letters remained
to make such a study possible. To his astonishment, Shamdasani
shared that funds were critically low for the Red Book project and that
there were over thirty thousand unpublished letters of every kind.
Shamdasani went on to further describe the vast amount of
unpublished works in the Jung Archive at the ETH (Eidgenössiche
Technische Hochschule — The Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology). In addition to letters, there were manuscripts, lectures
and seminars. Still more unpublished material was in private hands.
Since learning from Michael Fordham in 1988 that Jung’s Collected
Works were far from complete, Shamdasani had been attempting to
secure the publication of Jung’s unpublished works, and had
endeavored to interest individuals in the Jungian world in this task.
It was only in 1993 that a full catalogue of Jung’s manuscripts was
prepared, and commencing in 1994, Shamdasani undertook the first
detailed study of the unpublished manuscripts, later published in
2003 in his book, Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of
a Science. In 1996, he edited Jung’s 1932 seminar on the psychology
of Kundalini Yoga. In the mid 1990s, the Jung heirs started studying
the unpublished materials in order to determine what could be
published.
“Allow me a personal observation. Once my children were grown, I found
it natural to make a small donation to support the adoption of foreign
orphans, for example, from Africa. Perhaps it will seem strange to you,
but so it is with these unpublished writings of Jung, at least in my case;
every year I send a check to the Philemon Foundation. Written work lives
only when it has a public, that is, when it is published. The Philemon
Foundation is devoted precisely to giving life to those pages of Jung’s work
which risk the fate of remaining orphans!” — DR. LUIGI ZOJA, past president
of the International Association of Jungian Analysts and friend of Philemon
 As a serious student of fairy tales,
Martin knew a treasure when he
found one and the importance of
the fateful moment. He returned
to the United Stated determined
to organize a foundation to raise
the funds to bring to publication
this vast trove of Jung’s unpublished
work, including the Red Book.
The Red Book will appear in the
fall of 2009, published by W. W.
Norton in a full facsimile edition,
translated by Mark Kyburz, John
Peck and Sonu Shamdasani.
With the generous and farseeing support of an initial anonymous
donor, the Philemon Foundation was organized later that year, aptly
named by Margaret Baron after the figure that played a central role in
Jung’s fantasies during his confrontation with the unconscious. Based
on the Philemon who appeared in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and in
Goethe’s Faust, Jung’s Philemon served him as a guide throughout his
years of inner exploration.
In the following year, the Philemon Foundation was designated a
non-profit 501(c) (3) foundation and began the task of gathering
sustainable financial support. Among an enthusiastic group of early
donors, significant help came from Carolyn Grant Fay, renowned
Jungian philanthropist, who became our founding patron.
The officers and board of directors of the Foundation are drawn
from a representative audience for Jung’s work. They include
practicing Jungian analysts, scholars, leaders of Jungian organizations,
and laypersons with long and active appreciation for Jung’s genius.
Their biographies, together with the names of the donors who
support the foundation, are to be found on our website,
www.philemonfoundation.org. The Philemon Foundation has the
support and contractual collaboration of the Stiftung der Werke von
C. G. Jung (Foundation for the Works of C. G. Jung), the charitable
successor to the Erbengemeinschaft C. G. Jung (The Society of
Heirs of C. G. Jung).
Our completed work to date includes four issues of Jung History, The
Jung-White Letters, and the English edition of Jung’s Children’s Dreams:
Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940. Routledge published The
Jung-White Letters, edited by Ann Lammers and Adrian Cunningham,
in consultation with Murray Stein, as the first volume in the
Philemon Series in 2007. The letters trace the seminal relationship
between Jung and Father Victor White and their growing estrangement
over such questions as the nature of God and the place of evil in
divine nature.
Princeton University Press published Children’s Dreams, the second
volume in the Philemon Series, in 2008. Translated by Ernst
Falzeder and Tony Woolfson, these seminars present Jung’s most
extensive instruction in dream analysis and reveal that Jung did not
neglect the psychic life of children and actually conducted more
research in this area than did Freud.
Angela Graf-Nold, a German historian of psychology, is editing
multiple volumes of the groundbreaking thirteen-semester lecture
course that Jung delivered between 1933 and 1941 at the ETH.
The ETH Lectures, comprising over 1500 pages of verbatim notes
taken by seminar participants, contain a wealth of theoretical,
clinical, and historical information that gives unique insight into
the evolution of Jung’s thought. Several sets of participant notes
were recently recovered, and their compilation will finally permit a
full reconstruction of Jung’s lectures.
With the help of a matching grant from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, substantial work has been accomplished on the
transcription of over one hundred unpublished manuscripts in the
ETH Archive. When this is complete, a list of proposed volumes
will be drawn up.
From this list of initial projects, one can see how critical and urgent
is the mission to bring Jung’s unpublished works into the public
domain and offer his remarkable insights to the world. Donations to
the Philemon Foundation by those who value and have been moved
by Jung’s work are essential to the continuation of our task. With
its first projects, the Philemon Foundation has begun a new era
in the publication of Jung’s work and the realization of his vision.
We invite you to join us in this effort.
WHO IS PHILEMON?
IN 1913, Jung engaged in a lengthy period of self-investigation that
he termed the “confrontation with the unconscious.” As a form of
psychological self-experimentation, he decided to provoke fantasies
in a waking state, and thereafter to attempt to interpret their
significance and integrate their contents into consciousness. He later
called this method “active imagination” and made its use a part of
clinical practice and analytic exploration. In retrospect, he stated that
the material that emerged during this period, and his attempt to
shape and comprehend it formed the basis for the rest of his work.
Partial accounts of this period may be found in the notes of his
seminar given in 1925 on Analytical Psychology, prepared by Cary
Baynes, and in Aniela Jaffé’s biography of him, Memories, Dreams,
Reflections, published posthumously in a heavily edited form. In these,
Jung narrated some of the decisive experiences and spoke of a few of
the fantasy figures that he encountered. One of the most significant
was Philemon.
In Memories, Jung recalled that Philemon first appeared to him in a
dream. In it, Jung saw a sea blue sky, covered by brown clods of earth
that appeared to be breaking apart. Out of the blue, he saw an old
man with kingfisher wings and the horns of a bull flying across the
sky, carrying a bunch of keys. After the dream, Jung painted the
image, as he did not understand it. During this intense period, Jung
was struck by the synchronicity of finding a dead kingfisher, a bird
rarely seen around Zurich, in his garden by the lakeshore. Thereafter,
Philemon played an important role in Jung’s fantasies. For Jung, he
represented superior insight and was like a guru to him. Jung would
often converse with Philemon as he strolled in the garden of his
home in Küsnacht. To Aniela Jaffé, he recalled, “He was simply a
superior knowledge, and he taught me psychological objectivity and
the actuality of the soul... . He formulated and expressed everything
which I had never thought.”
WHAT IS OUR EDITORIAL PROCESS?
NO MATTER how careful and explicit an author may have been
during the original creative process, preparing material for publication
always remains a complex matter. So it is with the thousands of
pages of unpublished material. A description of the editorial process
will be helpful in understanding the task facing those who work
with the Philemon Foundation.
Jung’s unpublished materials began life as manuscript pages. In the
archives where our editors work are thousands of pages in either
Jung’s distinctive handwriting or typed. Before any editorial work can
begin, the manuscripts must be transcribed and proofread several
times.
In some cases, such as that of Jung’s ETH Lectures, a single manuscript
must be collated and compiled from various sets of notes from
participants who attended the seminars. At least five different
verbatim accounts exist for some of the ETH Lectures. Angela
Graf-Nold is at work weaving these different threads together to
form a text that approaches as closely as possible a complete
rendition of Jung’s original delivery.
Once this has been done, the editor reviews the text, identifying
important references and supplying explanatory and contextual notes.
To prepare an historical edition requires considerable research. For
example, the individuals mentioned in The Jung-White Letters had to
be correctly identified and the issues discussed clearly delineated.
These items had then to be elaborated upon in notes, so that the
correspondence can be suitably followed.
When the editor has completed the scholarly apparatus, a contextual
historical introduction is prepared and the manuscript can then
enter the formal publication process.
WHY IS SO MUCH STILL UNPUBLISHED?
AFTER JUNG’S DEATH, a great number of further manuscripts
came to light, in various stages of completion. Critically, it was
decided in 1964 to leave the bulk of these to one side and it was
only in 1993 that a full inventory of Jung’s unpublished manuscripts
was prepared. The larger share of this material remains completely
unknown.
In 1973 and 1975, a selection of Jung’s letters was published, edited
by Gerhard Adler, in collaboration with Aniela Jaffé. The editors
stated that from one thousand six hundred letters written by Jung
between the years 1906 and 1961, they selected over one thousand.
The actual number of Jung’s letters represented in these volumes
amounts to less than five percent of the estimated 40,000 surviving
letters at the ETH alone. Moreover, the policy of publishing only
Jung’s letters and not those of his correspondents (with the exception
of Freud) effectively decontexualised those letters that were published.
In 1956, Jung agreed to the publication of his seminars in the
Collected Works. Work on these commenced in the 1970s, but in the
1990s this effort ran aground, even before Jung’s ETH Lectures were
published. Many more seminars in English and German remain
unpublished. In the late 1990s, Jung’s Collected Works was declared
closed, despite the extent of the unpublished materials.
PHILEMON FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES
From time to time, Philemon Foundation hosts the Philemon Seminars
in Jung History, one or two day gatherings around the world that
explore Jung’s ideas as revealed through the continuing work of our
editors and other invited speakers. Donors and members of
Supporting and Contributing Institutions are given preference at
these events.
JUNG HISTORY
Jung History, a review of work in the evolving field of Jung History
in which the editors of the Philemon Foundation play a major
role, was first published in 2005. The journal also reports on the
activities of our editors as they pursue our mission of preparing
for publication the unpublished work of C. G. Jung. Donors,
Supporting and Contributing Institutions will receive copies of
these beautifully realized publications. The full text of each issue is
also available on the Philemon Foundation’s website
www.philemonfoundation.org
HOW CAN I HELP?
AN UNDERTAKING OF THIS MAGNITUDE is necessarily
costly and requires the enduring support of a broad international
community of individuals and institutions. We are fortunate to have
already received generous contributions from nearly one thousand
donors who support our mission. As we continue our effort to reach
out to the professional, lay and academic communities, we ask you
for your help with this great endeavor.
There are several ways to help. The first is financially by making a
donation that will enable our scholar editors to continue their
present projects and begin new ones. No gift is too small, no
donation unimportant. Donors will receive issues of Jung History,
invitations to the Philemon Seminars, and discounts on the
publications in the Philemon Foundation Series. Most of all, they
will receive the satisfaction of being part of this enormously
important effort to bring Jung’s wisdom and insight about the
human psyche to a world so much in need of them.
A second is to spread the good word to other friends of Jung
who might wish to make a donation. We would be pleased to send
you printed materials for your organizations and to make available
electronic documents about the Philemon Foundation to add to
appropriate group websites.
We invite organizations to become Supporting or Contributing
Institutions actively working with the Foundation to further our
mission. Both are encouraged to organize fundraising activities,
advertise the Foundation’s publications and activities on their
websites and in their membership newsletters. Kindly contact
Dr. Stephen A. Martin at smartin@philemonfoundation.org or
at his office, (610) 896-7536, for details and benefits.
Donations are tax deductible and may be made by sending a check
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us for details. We welcome gifts in kind the value of which, under
IRS regulations, must be established by the donor and may be tax
deductible to the donor.
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Front cover photograph, left photograph, © D. Glass; center photograph © Hermia Mills; Philemon image © Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung. All others unknown.
We invite you to join us in making the
full body of Jung’s unpublished work
available to scholars, clinicians, and
to the general public, so that its
comprehensive study may truly begin.
“Here we witness Jung the clinician more vividly
than ever before – and he is witty, impatient,
sometimes authoritarian, always wise and
intellectually daring, but also a teacher who,
though brilliant, could be vulnerable, uncertain,
and humbled by life’s great mysteries.”
— from dust jacket to CHILDREN’S DREAMS

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