Just released! Carl Jung The Black Books: Notebooks of Transformation (1913-1932) edited by Sonu Shamdasani [Philemon Series, Norton & Co.]
Stay tuned for a chat with colleague Sean McPeak @jungandwhisky about this amazing set. Visit @alchemicaltoil on IG for this conversation!
EXCERPT: 26, Nov. 1913, “In which underworld am I? It is dark and black as death! Everything deceives. “Don’t let yourself be distracted from what you have to do,” the voice says. What is it I shall do? Tell you more about the inner matters? Shall I overcome the daimon of my interior? Is it the hundred-headed dragon? I have bid silence to all these voices that want to hinder me, that want to block the way with the painful mockery. Otherwise I won’t cut through. Is it really your firm will, my soul? Don’t ask why? To what end? Is it useful? Is it valuable? Do it. Despite the tiresome toil of doubt the mountain shall be
climbed, despite the conviction, the near conviction, of the worthlessness of the undertaking, faith shall triumph—without the quietest, the supremely quiet proof of the correctness and the value of the action. My pen bristles regardless. Oh what impotence of the intellect! Life pushes me beyond criticism. You, my soul, you alone know that it is not hypocritical self-admiration, not hubris, that drives me forth to talk to you about me. You want it—I cannot resist you!” CGJUNG
