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Red Book

<p><i ><b>The Red Book</b></i>, also known as&nbsp;<i ><b>Liber Novus</b></i>&nbsp;(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language" title="Latin language" class="mw-redirect" >Latin</a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<i >New Book</i>), is a 205-page manuscript written and illustrated by Swiss psychiatrist&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung" title="Carl Jung" >Carl Gustav Jung</a>&nbsp;between approximately 1914 and 1930, prepared for publication by The&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philemon_Foundation" title="Philemon Foundation" >Philemon Foundation</a>&nbsp;and published by W.W. Norton & Co. on October 7, 2009. Until 2001, his heirs denied scholars access to the book, which he began after a falling-out with&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud" title="Sigmund Freud" >Sigmund Freud</a>&nbsp;in 1913. Jung originally titled the manuscript&nbsp;<i >Liber Novus</i>&nbsp;(literally meaning&nbsp;<i >A New Book</i>&nbsp;in Latin), but it was informally known and published as<i >The Red Book</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(Jung)#cite_note-0" >[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;The book is written in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligraphic" title="Calligraphic" class="mw-redirect" >calligraphic</a>&nbsp;text and contains many&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript" title="Illuminated manuscript" >illuminations</a>.</p>

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