In October 1913, on a train to Schaffhausen, Carl Jung watched Europe drown in a flood of blood, and decided the problem was his own mind.

What he did next is one of the strangest experiments in the history of psychology. Instead of running from the visions, he went toward them, night after night, with a notebook, while still seeing patients by day. This bedtime biography follows his whole life, slowly: the lonely boy with a secret in the attic, the break with Sigmund Freud, the stone village by the lake, the Red Book, the tower by the water, and the ideas that came up from the deep, introverts and extraverts, archetypes, the shadow, the collective unconscious, and synchronicity.

And it follows the argument that's still going: was it madness, or the most careful work of his life?

Told calmly and slowly, made for falling asleep.

Timestamps:
0:00 The vision on the train
3:10 The little man in the attic
11:46 The boy who fainted
20:23 Evenings with the spirits
29:44 Freud and the crown prince
39:30 The rest is silence
49:44 Letting himself drop
58:59 The old man with the keys
1:07:53 The war that made him sane
1:17:53 A circle every morning
1:27:54 Stone and shadow
1:38:47 A thousand miles up
1:49:49 The Red Book opens
1:59:42 Back to the train