It took me over a year to book this conversation, but now that it's finally happened, I feel honored that I got a chance to speak with Prof. Sonu Shamdasani – the scholar who contributed the most to bringing Carl Jung's Red Book to light.
Prof. Shamdasani is a world-renowned expert on the works of Carl Jung and the history of psychology. He has authored several books on Jung, but most notably for us today, he served as the editor of both The Red Book and the Black Notebooks that preceded it.
If there's one major idea that I took from this conversation with Prof. Shamdasani is the idea of Jung as an esoteric thinker. A scientist who works on another, secretive and personal level – the level of visions, dreams, and meditations. Or, as Jung himself terms it, coming to scientific understand through "Confrontation with the Unconscious".
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Episode 5: Sonu Shamdasani on 'The Red Book' and Carl Jung