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It was just over 100 years ago that Carl G. Jung , the Swiss psychiatrist and founder of an alternative model of psychoanalysis that he called analytical psychology, underwent his famous “encounter with the unconscious” (Jung 1963). He recorded this encounter in a personal journal he named The Black Books (which has yet to be published). Later, he transformed an edited account of his experience into what became known as Liber Novus, or The Red Book (Jung 2009). It was written in an illuminated, calligraphic German style and included many of Jung's paintings of the images and figures that presented themselves to him during a three-year period from 1913 to 1916.
Jung began this descent into the unconscious, as Jungian psychoanalyst Murray Stein (2010) pointed out, in a state of crisis brought on by his separation from Freud and his entrance into midlife. It was a time when Jung feared that he might be succumbing to a psychosis. Even so,