The Philemon Foundation was established in 2003 by the American Jungian analyst Stephen A. Martin and the British historian of psychology Sonu Shamdasani to prepare the unpublished works of C.G. Jung for scholarly publication. Its principal output is the Philemon Series, an ongoing critical edition of previously unpublished manuscripts, seminars, and correspondence — most visibly, the publication of The Red Book (Liber Novus) in 2009. The foundation operates as a nonprofit publishing scholarship body and works in collaboration with the Jung family heirs, archives at ETH Zurich, and academic institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Focus areas
Programs
- Publication of the Philemon Series
- Editorial work on Jung's unpublished manuscripts, seminars, and correspondence
- Translation grants
- Scholarly research support
Depth orientation
Philemon is the body responsible for the slow, scholarly opening of Jung's archive into print. Its work is editorial and historiographic rather than clinical, and is the principal reason the post-2000 generation of Jung scholarship has access to source materials at all.