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The Red Book: A Reader's Edition
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- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 20 hrs
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Summary
UPDATE: In response to listener feedback, this audio edition of The Red Book has now been revised to exclude footnotes in the reading.
An audio edition of the famous Red Book text and essay.
The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung's later works. It was here that he developed his principal theories of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation that would transform psychotherapy from treatment of the sick into a means for the higher development of the personality.
As Sara Corbett wrote in the New York Times, "The creation of one of modern history's true visionaries, The Red Book is a singular work, outside of categorization. As an inquiry into what it means to be human, it transcends the history of psychoanalysis and underscores Jung's place among revolutionary thinkers like Marx, Orwell and, of course, Freud."
The Red Book: A Reader's Edition features Sonu Shamdasani's introductory essay and the full translation of Jung's vital work in one audiobook. The Red Book is skillfully narrated by Mike Fraser.
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- John Bernhard Andersson
- 06-07-20
Footnotes renders the audiobook unlistenable
This review is not of Jungs Red Book but of this particular audio edition. DO NOT BUY IT--the writing is constantly interupted by full reading of footnotes. As a result it is impossible for the listener to immerse herself in Jungs text. It boggles my mind that the audiobook was executed like this.
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- istarfish
- 25-07-20
Do not buy!
This performance is not good enough. Jung's fascinating text is impossible to engage with through this recording in which the reader often stumbles over his words, interrupts the flow of thought by reading out the footnotes and mispronounces German references so that they become unrecognisable. What a missed opportunity! How could this happen?
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- Robert Smith
- 06-09-20
The Red Audiobook
Really happy that they have finally made an audiobook of the Red Book! I think the narrator does a really good job and has a more expressive voice than most audiobook narrators I’ve heard. However, I think it is a bit of a missed opportunity not to have it read by a narrator with a Swiss accent like Jung’s. That would have really added something.
I have to agree with others reviewers here that they should have left out the footnotes in the audiobook version - they really break up the flow of the main text. Perhaps the publisher could release an alternative version without footnotes?
Overall - it’s awesome that they have made this audiobook and I hope there is more to come from this publisher (black books etc).
Update 05/07/21: Impressed that the publisher listened to the feedback regarding the footnotes. Just listened to the new updated version with them removed - so much better. You can now get fully immersed in the reading and it flows beautifully. Good work.
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- D Kelch
- 23-12-21
Updated audio version
The earlier negative reviews for this audio work are based on the fact the footnotes were originally included. It has now been updated with the footnotes removed. Despite having not heard the original, I think that was the correct decision.
The footnotes are a wonderful resource in the printed editions, but I don’t imagine they would make for a good listening experience.
If you want the footnotes you can get the Reader’s Edition or the full facsimile version.
If you want to have this excellent work read to you, then I think this version is flawless.
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- Richard Fairley
- 16-04-21
Very Dull Narration
I was looking forward to this - but my goodness, the narration is dull! Uninspired, lacklustre and delivered in a monotone with hardly any inflection. Seriously, the narrator might as well be reading a telephone directory - he patently has no interest in the material. Such a pity that such a profound text was given this poor treatment. What were they thinking? Could they not book a replacement narrator in time?
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- K
- 04-10-20
Unlistenable
The Red Book is an important hemetic work, and Mike Fraser has an intellegence and soothing voice. But this reading is almost unlistenable because every footnote is read out. Footnotes vary from "footnote: instead of knowledge the original text has wisdom page 146" to full paragraphs explaining what thirty pieces of silver means in Christianity. What reader is going to have found their way to reading The Red Book and not have read, or at least be aware of this kind of knowledge? The one star overall ranking is because these footnotes are so common, and so extensive, it breaks up the flow of text. Literally every entry will have three or four footnotes. I'm sure the book translation (where you can skip such interuptions) is good but the choice to read them out has ruined this work.
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- Jonathan Baldie
- 09-07-20
Wonderfully rich and deep
Classic Jung - a bit of a maze, and stuttering at times, but nevertheless a vital piece of psychological thought.
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- Graham Stronach
- 28-11-23
Absolutely dreadful
The reader's tone is COMPLETELY wrong, sardonic and uninvested, turning one of the greatest thinkers and pioneers in his field into a proponent of spurious pseudoscience. Extremely disappointing. It was so unconvincing that it made me wonder if it was an AI rendering
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- Ema
- 31-12-21
This is the best book ever.
For those who love C.G Jung and psychology and psychoanalysis this is a must.
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- Leah Lotous
- 23-03-21
Thank you
Jung's family.. thank you so much for letting this be shared with all of us.
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