Tuesday, October 11, 2011

TWO NEW BOOKS ABOUT DREAMS

Take a peek into the minds of two of the most influential people of the 20th century!


The Red Book (also known as Liber Novus, The New Book), by Carl Jung had been completed for 69 years before the public was ever able to lay eyes upon it. This gem is a document of the Swiss psychologist's 'voluntary confrontation with the unconscious'. Here Jung developed his theories of archetypes and the collective unconscious. And luckily for us, all of the fancy German script is transcribed in the back of the book.


Now, we have an even more brand spanking new dream book. Frederico Fellini, the famous Italian director whose oeuvre contains masterpieces like 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita, kept a notebook detailing his dreams for thirty years. Coincidently he began his dream journals under the influence of a Jungian analyst. These lush watercolor illustrations and hilarious summaries will make your dreams seem hopelessly boring and uninspired. In the event that you cannot read Italian or decipher chicken scratch, there are also full transcriptions in the back.