Library

The Jung Society Library is maintained by Lucy Davey and housed at the eastern end of Level 2 484 Kent St Sydney. It contains Jung's Collected Works and other texts by Jung as well as works by his contemporaries, such as Marie Louise von Franz and post-Jungians such as Wolfgang Giegerich, James Hillman, Marion Woodman, Andrew Samuels, Robert Sardello, Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig etc. There is also a collection of Journals, including those from Spring.

Opening Hours

Library opening hours are from 6:30pm to 7:00pm before each Saturday presentation and from 8:30pm to 9:00pm after the presentation.

Borrowing Rights

A maximum of 2 Books can be borrowed for up to 2 months, after which a fine of $10 a month will be incurred.

Returns

Returns can be posted back to the Jung Society at GPO Box 2796 Sydney 2000 or addressed to Lucy Davey, Librarian, Jung Society of Sydney and left in the office at Level 3 484 Kent St Sydney.

We encourage people to return these precious and often out-of-print books for the enjoyment of all and have found an interesting curse used in Mediaeval times for those who break this requirement!

Library Curse

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from it's owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain crying out for mercy & let there be no curcease to his agony until he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails [..] when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of hell consume him forever.

Bookshop

The Jung Society Bookshop is open before and after the monthly presentations. The Bookshop has a selection of new and second hand books for sale, with discounted prices for members. Many Spring publications are available.

'Before I discovered alchemy, I had a series of dreams which repeatedly dealt with the same theme. Beside my house stood another, that is to say, another wing or annex, which was strange to me. Each time I would wonder in my dream why I did not know this house, athough it had apparently always been there. Finally came a dream in which I reached the other wing. I discovered there a wonderful library, dating largely from the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries. Large, fat folio volumes, bound in pigskin, stood along the walls. Among them were a number of books embellished with copper engravings of a strange character, and illustrations containing curious symbols such as I have never seen before. At the time I did not know to what they referred; only much later did I recognise them as alchemical symbols. In the dream I was conscious only of the fascination exerted by them and by the entire library.'

C G Jung Memories, Dreams Reflections ed Aniela Jaffe (revised ed) Vintage Books NY 1989 p202

Donations

All DONATIONS of books are welcome – please contact the Jung Society of Sydney to arrange a pickup.

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