The big news in the Jungian world this week is the forthcoming publication of Jung's The Red Book, a volume Jungians have been curious about for decades. Perhaps as big is the unusually positive article about the effort to publish the book -- in fact "Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious" was the cover story for yesterday's NY Times. John Grohol also writes of this publishing event today.
I have heard about The Red Book for years so naturally I am curious about it. And if and when a chance to look at it closely comes for me, I will certainly take advantage of it. I must confess though that I am more interested in application of Jungian theory, in its clinical use than I am in Jung himself. I was reading works by Jungians long before I began to read Jung -- perhaps that is an artifact of being a few of generations removed, clinically speaking, from Jung. It has been since I have been running a study group where we read from the Collected Works together that I have dug into the work of Jung himself in a serious way.
Right now I am not inclined myself to buy the book but I am deeply interested in the material which will be written about it in the coming months.