While reading The Red Book by C.G. Jung, I begin to understand why some modern scholars (and religious leaders!) can see this work as a bit of an embarrassment. Not only, through evoking myth, does The Red Book fly in the face of modern rationalism on the one hand, and the established “concepts of God” on the other. It awakens (and subverts!) both the heroic and the shameful in us.
JOANNA KUROWSKA 