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Sonu Shamdasani, Ph.D. is Professor in Jung History in the School of European Languages, Culture & Society, Vice-Dean (International) of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and co-director of the Health Humanities Centre at University College London.
After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Bristol, he earned a master’s degree in the history of science and medicine from Imperial College London and University College London, and a doctorate in the history of medicine from the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at UCL.
He is an historian of psychology and psychiatry, specializing in the work of C.G. Jung. In 2003 he founded, along with Stephen Martin, the Philemon Foundation, the successor to the Bollingen Foundation, which originally made possible the publication of Jung’s Collected Works. With the support and contractual collaboration of the Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung, the charitable successor to the Association of the Heirs of C.G. Jung, the Philemon Foundation is authorized to raise funds to edit and prepare for publication Jung’s unpublished manuscripts, seminars, and correspondences, numbering in the tens of thousands of pages. Professor Shamdasani currently serves as their General Editor, and as Chief Editor of the Philemon Series, overseeing the publication of the unpublished works of C.G. Jung.
Professor Shamdasani is the author of Cult Fictions: C.G. Jung & the Founding of Analytical Psychology, winner of the 1999 Gradiva Prize for the best historical and biographical work from the World Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis; Jung & the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science; Jung Stripped Bare By his Biographers, Even; and C.G. Jung: A Biography in Books. He is co-author of The Freud Files: An Inquiry Into the History of Psychoanalysis; and Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung’s Red Book.
He is also the editor of C.G. Jung’s, The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932; Michael Fordham’s Analyst-Patient Interaction: Collected Papers on Technique; Théodore Flournoy’s From India to the Planet Mars: A Case of Multiple Personality with Imaginary Languages; and, with Michael Munchow, Speculations After Freud: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis & Culture. Professor Shamdasani is best known as editor and co-translator of The Red Book: Liber Novus, and the newly released 7-volume set The Black Books 1913-1932: Notebooks of Transformation, which is the subject of our talk today.
This interview was recorded on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. It’s 01:18:35 long and 72.4 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. It’s also available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and on Amazon Music. This episode is also available on our YouTube channel, which is now ad-free.
SHOW NOTES
The Black Books 1913-1932: Notebooks of Transformation by C.G. Jung, Edited and introduced by Sonu Shamdasani
The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung, Edited and introduced by Sonu Shamdasani
Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung
“Autobiography of a Soul” Interview with Sonu Shamdasani, by Nina Martyris, Times of India, Dec. 12, 2009
The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932 by C.G. Jung, Edited by Sonu Shamdasani
Jim Mairs Obituary, 2016
Philemon Foundation Completing the works of C.G. Jung
The Philemon Series Fundraising appeal
The Collected Works of C.G. Jung All volumes on Amazon
R.F.C. Hull Obituary, 1974
C.G. Jung Letters Vol. 1 1906-1950
C.G. Jung Letters Vol. 2 1951-1961
The Original Protocols for Memories, Dreams, Reflections Current project of the Philemon Foundation
Rubin Museum of Art The Red Book of C.G. Jung exhibit
Memories, Dreams, Reflections Recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffé
C.G. Jung: Word & Image Edited by Aniela Jaffé
C.G. Jung Papers Collection ETH Library, ETH Zürich
ETH Zürich University Archives Searchable database
The Art of C.G. Jung Edited by the Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung
Introduction to Jungian Psychology: Notes of the Seminar on Analytical Psychology Given in 1925 by C.G. Jung, revised with a new introduction and updates by Sonu Shamdasani
Aion: Researches Into the Phenomenology of the Self The Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol. 9ii
Mysterium Coniunctionis The Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol. 14
Answer to Job by C.G. Jung
BY SONU SHAMDASANI
Cult Fictions: C.G. Jung & the Founding of Analytical Psychology Routledge, 1998
Jung & the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science Cambridge University Press, 2003
Jung Stripped Bare By His Biographers, Even Karnac, 2005
C.G. Jung: A Biography in Books W.W. Norton, 2012
CO-AUTHORED BY SONU SHAMDASANI
The Freud Files: An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis with Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Cambridge University Press, 2012
Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung’s Red Book with James Hillman, W.W. Norton, 2013
CO-EDITED BY SONU SHAMDASANI
Speculations After Freud: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy & Culture with Michael Munchow, Routledge, 1994
Exploring Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies with Del Loewenthal, Routledge, 2020
FRINGE: Medical Humanity & Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World with Mererid Puw Davies, UCL Press, 2020
EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY SONU SHAMDASANI
From India to the Planet Mars: A Case of Multiple Personality with Imaginary Languages by Théodore Flournoy, Princeton University Press, 1994
The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932 by C.G. Jung, Princeton University Press, 1996
Analyst–Patient Interaction: Collected Papers on Technique by Michael Fordham, Routledge, 1996
The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung, W.W. Norton, 2009
The Black Books 1913-1932: Notebooks of Transformation by C.G. Jung, W.W. Norton, 2020
ADDITIONAL LINKS
UCL Health Humanities Centre Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London
FRINGE: Medical Humanity & Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World Free open access PDF; edited with Mererid Puw Davies; includes the chapter, “From Neurosis to a New Cure of Souls: C.G. Jung’s Remaking of the Psychotherapeutic Patient” by Sonu Shamdasani
Publications by Professor Shamdasani IRIS Profile, University College London
Sonu Shamdasani on The Red Book Library of Congress video, Jun. 19, 2010
Jung’s Unpublished Book on Alchemy & Individuation Crowd Funding Campaign
Modern Psychology: C.G. Jung’s Lectures at the ETH Zürich, 1933-1941 Detailed information on the eight volume series from the Philemon Foundation
Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Jim Mairs about The Red Book Audio interview, July 11, 2010
Carl Jung & the Mytho-poetic Layer of the Psyche A blog post about this episode was written on Jan. 2, 2021 by Mike Clelland, author of The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity & the UFO Abductee, and Stories from the Messengers: Accounts of Owls, UFOs & a Deeper Reality.