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The ongoing editing and publication of Jung's seminars and lectures through the Philemon Series of Princeton University Press provides an exhilarating opportunity to engage with Jung's living voice as he is in dialogue with his collaborators and audiences. Readers may appreciate the informal register of the seminars and lectures, as they offer an insight into the emergence of analytical psychology. Here Jung's ideas are more accessibly presented than they are in the Collected Works, which can, at times, tend towards labyrinthine verbosity.
The volume is sourced, edited and introduced by academics at the forefront of the renaissance in Jungian history and theory led by Sonu Shamdasani. The text is sensitively compiled from several sets of shorthand notes and annotated with critical footnotes referencing a variety of readings, as well as Jung's sources and other publications. This historical critical approach is immensely valuable as it sets the inherited conceptual language free from long-held assumptions and makes the development of Jung's ideas transparent and traceable.
Martin Liebscher, the volume's editor, provides an excellent introduction into the genesis of Jung's writing on Ignatius, presenting a dense, concise and dispassionate contextualization that makes valuable connections between Jung's personal visionary engagement, his broad research and involvement in the intellectual and cultural ferment of the time. Liebscher does all this with clarity and a refreshing absence of moralization or psychological guesswork, even as he traces Jung's involvement with Europäischer Kulturbund and its publication Europäische Revue, a conservative, aristocratic and transnational forum with links to the contemporary intellectual avantgarde. Some members of the group would join the burgeoning fascist movement whilst others joined resistance groups. Jung's main theological point of reference in the lectures, the Jesuit theologian Erich Przywara, was part of this circle and publi