Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This is a recording of the online launch of Robert M. Ellis's book 'Red Book, Middle Way: How Jung Parallels the Buddha's Quest for Human integration', published by Equinox in Oct 2020. It includes a talk by Robert, followed by questions from the audience, and was recorded on 18th Oct 2020.
'Red Book, Middle Way' offers a new interpretation of Jung’s Red Book, in terms of the Middle Way, as a universal principle and embodied ethic, paralleled both in the Buddha’s teachings and elsewhere.
Jung’s Red Book, finally published only in 2009, is a highly ambiguous text describing a succession of extraordinary visions, together with Jung’s interpretation of them. Jung explicitly discusses the Middle Way in the Red Book (although this has been largely ignored by scholars so far) and offers lots of material that can be understood in its terms. This book interprets the Red Book in relation to the archetypes met in its visions — the hero, the feminine, the Shadow, God and Christ — and follows Jung’s process of integrating these different internal figures. To do this Jung needs to find the Middle Way between absolutes at every point, in a way similar to the Buddha.
Red Book, Middle Way will engage both those inspired by Jung and those interested in the Middle Way of the Buddha, offering a source of deep imaginative reflection on our practical human motives.
You can purchase the book from equinoxpub.com/home/red-book
This is a recording of the online launch of Robert M. Ellis's book 'Red Book, Middle Way: How Jung Parallels the Buddha's Quest for Human integration', published by Equinox in Oct 2020. It includes a talk by Robert, followed by questions from the audience, and was recorded on 18th Oct 2020.
'Red Book, Middle Way' offers a new interpretation of Jung’s Red Book, in terms of the Middle Way, as a universal principle and embodied ethic, paralleled both in the Buddha’s teachings and elsewhere.
Jung’s Red Book, finally published only in 2009, is a highly ambiguous text describing a succession of extraordinary visions, together with Jung’s interpretation of them. Jung explicitly discusses the Middle Way in the Red Book (although this has been largely ignored by scholars so far) and offers lots of material that can be understood in its terms. This book interprets the Red Book in relation to the archetypes met in its visions — the hero, the feminine, the Shadow, God and Christ — and follows Jung’s process of integrating these different internal figures. To do this Jung needs to find the Middle Way between absolutes at every point, in a way similar to the Buddha.
Red Book, Middle Way will engage both those inspired by Jung and those interested in the Middle Way of the Buddha, offering a source of deep imaginative reflection on our practical human motives.
You can purchase the book from equinoxpub.com/home/red-book
