“The way of the be-coming”

In examining the importance in C.G. Jung’s Red Book of the notion of “be-coming” (das Kommende) and of the representations associated to it – such as “the way of what is to come” (des Weg des Kommenden) and “the God yet to come” (der kommende Gott) – this article centers on the prophetic tone of the discourse in these texts, and examines what might be at stake for a Jungian conception of postchristianity and what that implies regarding the concept of a “symbolic life” and for the ideas of individuation and of the Self.