As a result of the experiences which he recorded and elaborated in his Red Book, Liber Novus, Jung re-defined his use of the term “symbol”, clearly differentiating it from its Freudian semiotic sense. In this seminar I will compare Jung’s lyrical writing on the symbol in Chapter 20 of Liber Secundus with the definition in the language of scientific psychology he published seven years later in Psychological Types. My aim will be to suggest how the symbol, in Jung’s new sense, may inform and guide the practice of psychotherapy.

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George Bright is a supervising analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology working in private practice in West London. He is also one of the founders of The Circle of Analytical Psychology which provides a two-year course to read Jung’s Red Book, Liber Novus.

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Jung, C.G., ‘The Way of the Cross” in The Red Book. Reader’s Edition. Ed. and Introduction S. Shamdasani. London and New York:Norton 2009, 388-9

Jung, C.G., Psychological Types: definitions: symbol.

1. In the H.G. Baynes 1923 translation, which can be downloaded for free from https://archive.org/details/psychological_types

2. In CW 5

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