Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung's Red Book

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In the time that Jung worked on the book he came into direct experience with the forces of the deep mind and collective unconscious. As they remark, Jung’s opus was not for personal effect, but to bring something from the depths back to the world.

The skin that Shamdasani has in this game is as an academic while Hillman gets to play the prophet and hero of the new psychology they describe without threat or competition.I would never have heard the voice of James Hillman inside myself unless I had learned to listen to the dead from his voice beyond the grave. Perhaps it is undefined because these men are feeling something or intuitively, seeing something that the living lack the intellectual language for. Lament of the Dead is a series of conversations between Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani, the editor of Jung’s Red Book – a Herculean undertaking that he achieved with incredible patience and skill.

They discuss the lament inherent in Jung, and express what it means to communicate, to open oneself to attend to the dead. For any attempt at self-realization without full recognition of the psychopathology that resides, as Hegel said, inherently in the soul is in itself pathological, an exercise in self-deception.He served in the US Navy Hospital Corps from 1944 to 1946, after which he attended the Sorbonne in Paris, studying English Literature, and Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a degree in mental and moral science in 1950.