jung/AGENTS.md

Jung Reading List → Russian Editions: Research Notes

Goal

For every book in the ISAP Zurich reading list (https://isapzurich.com/en/library/reading-list), find the Russian edition(s): correct Russian title, publisher, year, translator, ISBN, libgen download page (if exists), and РГБ (RSL) bibliographic record (if exists).

We work section by section. Current: Section 04 — Pictures (sections/04-pictures/). Sections 1–3, 5–7 are skeletons for later.

Repository layout

AGENTS.md            # this file — plan, conventions, source status
CONTEXT.md           # misc findings that fit no other category
tools/               # search helpers (lg.py, rsl.py, sx.sh)
authors/             # CANONICAL: one dossier per author (shared across all sections)
sections/0N-<name>/  # one .md per BOOK (chapter-level list items are merged into the book file)
                     # + AUTHORS-EN.md = THIN INDEX (item → author → link to authors/<slug>.md)

Conventions

• One file per book, named NN-<slug>.md (NN = order in the reading list).
• Status marker at top of each book file:
  • ⬜ not searched yet
  • 🔎 searching in progress
  • ✅ RU edition(s) found
  • 🔶 partial (e.g. only an essay/chapter available in RU)
  • ❌ no RU edition found (verified)
• Book file contents: human-readable editions table + raw RSL JSON block + libgen edition URLs (https://libgen.vg/edition.php?id=... — contains download links; direct file links rotate, don't store them) + notes (identity check, RU↔EN title pairing source).
• Author dossiers (authors/<lastname>-<firstname>.md) are the CANONICAL home for identity, shared across ALL sections (same author can appear in 01, 04, …). One dossier per PERSON, slug <lastname>-<firstname> (lowercase, hyphens). Hold: dates, RU name candidates (all plausible transliterations, German names often have several: Нойманн/Нойман/Нейманн), the list items that cite this author (sec # + status), verified RU works with EN mapping, homonym warnings.
• sections/0N/AUTHORS-EN.md is a THIN INDEX only — table item(s) → author → link to ../../authors/.md``. It must NOT duplicate identity data (no RU-name analysis, no RU works table). If an author appears in two sections, the dossier is written once and both section indexes point to it. Cross-section homonym traps (e.g. the two different "Alice Miller"s) get their own dossier + a warning in both.
• Commit per completed book (or when meaningful author info is gained), message like: sec04: <book> — <finding>.
• Update CONTEXT.md for anything useful that fits no category.

Sources and their status (verified 2026)

1. РГБ (Russian State Library) via libgen.vg biblioservice — PRIMARY for existence + editions

• Tool: tools/rsl.py "Full Name" (JSON, polite, 3s between pages)
• Raw URL: https://libgen.vg/biblioservice.php?value=<query>&type=rsl&format=json
• Rich records: title parts, author with life dates [1905-1960] (great identity anchor), translator, publisher, city, year, pages, ISBN, series, UDC tags, even TOC field.
• Limitations: no pagination (fixed first page) → always query by full first+last name for people, or 2–3 distinctive words. Loose matching (searches author AND title fields).
• Other type= values on this mirror are dead: worldcat, googlebooks, isbndb, udc (all return "Nothing found" even for control queries). type=isbn decodes ISBN structure: checksum error + registered publisher group name (e.g. 5-519 → «Клуб Касталия», 5-98712 → «Петроглиф») — cheap, unlimited; used by tools/isbnval.py as the structure layer.

2. libgen.vg full-text search — PRIMARY for readable editions

• Tool: tools/lg.py "query" (whole words only, res=100, prints pagination hint)
• Raw URL: https://libgen.vg/index.php?req=<query>&res=100
• Requires a browser User-Agent (otherwise nginx default page / robot block).
• Search semantics (verified): whole-word, case-insensitive. Stems do NOT work reliably (происхожден → 0 hits; full Происхождение → many). Multi-word = AND. → Use full inflected words (nominative, as stored in titles) and 2–3 distinctive words.
• Author search works (req=Нойманн) but pulls homonyms — filter by first name in results.
• Pagination: &page=N works.
• Edition page: https://libgen.vg/edition.php?id=<id>.

3. cogito-shop.com — current Russian trade (Jungian/psychoanalysis specialists)

• URL: https://cogito-shop.com/search/?q=<query> (param is q, not query)
• Matches author AND title. Good for "is it sellable now in RU".

4. SearXNG (local) — cross-verification

• Tool: tools/sx.sh "query" (JSON API at http://localhost:8888; the web_search tool blocks localhost)
• Use to verify RU↔EN title pairing in a third party's words, resolve transliterations.
• Keep queries ≤ 3–4 words; «…» quotes only on distinctive RU titles. Unstable relevance — drop junk queries, don't retry blindly.

5. ru.wikipedia / en.wikipedia — author dossiers

• ru-wiki articles often have «…на русском» sections listing actual RU titles.
• en-wiki for the EN bibliography (identity anchor: 3–5 flagship titles).

6. livelib.ru author pages — all RU works of a known author

• e.g. livelib.ru/author/<id>-<slug> lists every RU edition (server-rendered, scrapable).
• Author ID: find via SearXNG site:livelib.ru <author>. The /search page is JS-only (nope).
• Publisher pages /publisher/<id>-<slug> = the publisher's full book list (server-rendered, book links /book/<id>-<slug> carry title + author slugs) — cheap reverse publisher sweep. Example: /publisher/2076-medkov-s-b (Медков С. Б. — small esoteric press w/ Jung line).

7. cogito-shop person pages — shop stock per author

• cogito-shop.com/person/<first>_<last>/ (transliterated, first-name first, e.g. /person/mariya_luiza_fon_frants/, /person/yaffe_aniela/).
• Slug discoverable from the shop's search page (results contain person links) or guessable.
• Lists every edition the shop carries (title variants!). Product pages lack full metadata in HTML (JS-rendered) — use RSL/livelib for publisher/year/ISBN.

8. GNB SPb (State Public Library of St. Petersburg) catalog — SECONDARY bibliographic source

• URL: https://www.gbs.spb.ru/ru/search/detail/?id=<hash> (rich GOST records: title, responsible parties incl. translators, publisher w/ full legal names, year, pages, ISBN, notes like «Др. кн. авт.»)
• Complements RSL: RSL (RGB) misses some small-press editions (e.g. Pattis-Zhoya «Аборты…» Т8/ЦГИ 2017 is in GBS but NOT in RSL). Query via SearXNG site:gbs.spb.ru <author>.

9. chitai-gorod.ru / ozon / labirint — trade retail pages

• chitai-gorod author pages list RU works (some noise); product pages give publisher/year/ISBN.
• labirint.ru/books/ server-rendered w/ full specs (publisher, year, pages, ISBN, translator).
• Ozon product pages: blocked from curl (redirect loop) — fetch_content also fails; use browser.

10. flibusta — big e-book library. .su = server-rendered search; .is = OPDS + direct downloads (user fixed access, 2026-07-16)

• .is OPDS (preferred): Tool tools/flib.py:
  • flib.py authors "query" → /opds/search?searchType=authors&searchTerm=… (id, name, book count)
  • flib.py books "query" → searchType=books (id, title, author, year, format, translator from annotation)
  • flib.py author <id> → /opds/author/<id>/alphabet — book list (20 per page!)
  • flib.py authorall <id> — follows rel="next" pages (/alphabet/1, /2, …) to the end — always use authorall (Jung a/5272 = 128 books; the bare feed shows only the first 20)
  • Author HTML: /a/<id> (e.g. a/57639 = фон Франц, a/118921 = Нойманн); book page /b/<id>
  • Direct downloads: /b/<id>/fb2|epub|mobi|html|txt (pdf/doc as «/b//download» links on the pages)
  • Quirks (2026-07-17): fb2+zip format actually returns a ZIP (unpack: 1 fb2 + cover inside); /b/<id>/pdf sometimes 302-redirects to the book HTML page (a ~20 KB stub) when the file isn't served directly — check downloaded «pdf»s with file, fall back to libgen (same editions usually there) or the fb2 twin.
• .su search: https://flibusta.su/booksearch/?ask=<query> (param is ask); HTML links /book/<id>-<slug>, /author/<id>-<slug>. API endpoints blocked on .su (api/search.php → 403).
• Value: (1) RU full-text downloads for the download phase; (2) author-book-list = cheap author sweep; (3) negative verification (all same-name authors listed). Verified 2026-07-09 (.su): no «Выявляющий образ», no «Сэндплей» titles, no «Тест Дерево», no «Искусство и творческое бессознательное» (as titled). Flibusta search is fuzzy (whole-phrase not required).

11. Open Library — the "English RSL" (author works lists, full names, ISBNs)

• Tool: tools/ol.py "author:Lastname, First" or tools/ol.py 'title:"Exact EN Title"'
• openlibrary.org/search.json?q=...&fields=title,author_name,publish_year,language,publisher,isbn
• No key, no rate limits observed (1s between calls is polite). Aggregates all editions of a work into one doc. Best use: resolve full EN author names from initial-only list entries (title:"..." → author_name) and get the EN works list + ISBNs to feed Google Books.
• RU coverage is sparse but REAL (romanized titles, e.g. «Chelovek i ego simvoly»); the search.json?isbn= facet works for RU ISBNs too. Don't use a language=rus filter — it under-reports. RU hunting still mainly RSL/libgen/flibusta/GBS SPb/Google Books.

12. Wikidata — identity anchors (life dates + OFFICIAL RU name)

• Tool: tools/wd.py "Full Name"
• wbsearchentities + wbgetentities: QID, P569/P570 (birth/death), EN/DE/RU labels, RU aliases. The RU label is the single most reliable spelling for RSL/libgen queries.
• Only useful for Wikipedia-scale names (Jung, Neumann, Kandinsky, Jaffé, …); niche authors are absent — fall back to OL title search or publisher pages.

13. archive.org — EN full texts: search, metadata, downloads ("English libgen"; user-confirmed 2026-07-16)

• Tool: tools/ia.py search "creator:(Carl Gustav Jung)" / title "Aion" / meta <id>
• advancedsearch.php?q=...&output=json&fl[]=identifier,title,year,downloads,access-restricted-item,mediatype (Solr syntax; append AND mediatype:texts — creator: search is loose, includes images/misattributions).
• archive.org/metadata/<id> → file list (Text PDF / EPUB / DJVU / FB3 + sizes) — pick the file, then direct download /download/<item>/<file> works (used for sec04 OCR verification; verified: Aion collectedworksof92cgju = CW9/2 full text, open, 344k downloads).
• Uses: (1) EN full-text downloads for ✅ items (Jung CW volumes live here: collectedworksof*); (2) EN identity/metadata; (3) content verification (OCR _text.pdf → pdftotext, e.g. the Neumann 4-essay match). access-restricted-item: true = controlled lending (borrow, no direct download).
• Item page: archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22C.+G.+Jung%22 (web UI of the same index).

14. Google Books — book page via curl OR fetch_content (API is 429 without key)

• books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN<13digits>: plain curl works — 200 + <title>"T - A - Google Книги" if indexed, 404 if not. Good ISBN validator incl. RU (АСТ/Эксмо/БукСМарт hit; small-press 404). googleapis.com/books API stays 429 without a key.
• Keep volume LOW: Google may block agents on sustained querying (user warning 2026-07-15). Budget: a few dozen requests per session, 2–5s random pauses, never in tight loops; treat as an auxiliary cross-check, not a bulk source. If 429/403-redirect walls appear — stop and fall back to OL/libgen/RSL.
• fetch_content on the same URL → richer metadata: full author/editor names, edition, series. Resolved Ottmann=Klaus, Goldstein=Ralph, Brutsche=Paul, Elder=George, Moon=Beverly, Killick=Katherine, Pennington/Staples, Rowland=Susan, Bolander=Karen, Acton=Mary via this or OL.
• PagePlace preview PDFs (2026-07-17): many Routledge/T&F books have a public preview at api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.<ISBN13>_A<n>/preview-<ISBN13>_A<n>.pdf (~20–30 pp: title page + TOC — perfect for identity/series verification when the full text is closed; find the URL via SearXNG "<EN title>" preview pdf). Used for item 12 (Evers-Fahey, 9781317219583).

15. Shop directory (HSE bookshelf34 pattern) — where RU psychoanalytic books are sold

• HSE «Книжный шкаф» (hse.ru/ma/therapy/bookshelfNN) = a DIRECTORY of shops, not a book list: NikBook (nikbook.ru — WBS shop, ?q= search is fuzzy/works), Когито-Центр, Скифия (skifiabook.ru — publisher/shop, JS catalog, has a full price list download), marketplaces.
• NikBook Jungian finds (2026-07-09): Тоцци «Активное воображение в теории, практике и обучении», Конгер «Юнг и Райх. Тело как Тень», Эдингер «Библия и психе».
• beta2alpha.ru — RU publisher (Tilda site; sells via Ozon seller beta-2-alpha); Jungian stock TBC.

16. Publisher sites — RU full texts and bibliographies

• hi-human.org (Living Human Heritage RU) — publishes book forewords/sections as pages (source of the Neumann EN-works list with RU titles).
• castalia.ru / castaliasilvasacra.ru (Клуб Касталия) — author articles + shop.
• daimon-verlag.ch / chironpublications.com / spring-publications.com — EN Jungian presses (spring-publications unreachable from this box; use Google Books ISBN instead).

17. alib.ru — RU/KZ book marketplace, 3.2M listings (used + new, incl. small press)

• Tool: tools/alib.py "query" (stem search! matches all inflections — unlike libgen).
• Endpoint: https://www.alib.ru/find3.php4?tfind=<query>; query and pages are CP1251 (utf8 → mojibake). Phrase mode: double quotes. Also: author-first, year range, ISBN digits, price range. >Купить< links = listing count.
• Value: catches small-press / out-of-print editions shops don't carry (found: Furth 2nd ed. 2014, Turner handbook 2015, Neumann КДУ/Маниф/Питер editions). Seller titles can be wrong — verify against RSL before trusting (e.g. «Челокес и миф» Kastaalia 2018 — not in castalia.ru catalog → seller error).
• Also: alib.top (Ukraine), 33ob.ru (vinyl), amarka.ru (stamps) — sister sites.

18. Local CRW renderer (fastcrw.com, Firecrawl-compatible, localhost:3000)

• Tool: tools/crw.py <url> [--html] [--wait N ms] — POST /v1/scrape {"url","formats":["markdown"]}
• Use for JS-heavy sites curl can't read (soznanie.ast-academy.ru festival site rendered fine).
• Limits: Ozon and chitai-gorod search are API/anti-bot protected — CRW returns nothing.
• Insales shops (castalia.ru) don't need it: product data is server-side JSON-LD (curl OK).

19. NLR / РНБ (National Library of Russia) via Primo (primo.nlr.ru) + CRW

• Tool: tools/nlr.py "query" — free-text search (all fields, words ANDed), page 1 (20 rows).
• Search is client-rendered → the tool renders the search.do?fn=search&ct=search& vl(freeText0)=QUERY&vid=07NLR_VU1&mode=Basic&initialSearch=true URL via CRW and parses title/author/year/holding (+ doc IDs when the linked layout renders).
• Full record (GOST description, incl. translators): CRW on display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=<07NLR_LMS#########>&displayMode=full&vid=07NLR_VU1 (plain curl gives only the shell — details tab is XHR).
• Value: complements RSL — own St. Petersburg holdings + GOST records; author rows carry life dates and NLR auth IDs. Count line parsing is flaky — trust the parsed row list.
• Verified 2026-07-09: all 35 section-04 surnames swept (see sections/04-pictures/SWEEP-R7.md).

20. RSL direct (aleph.rsl.ru, Ex Libris Aleph) — PARTIAL

• find-a flow works: GET /F/-?func=file&file_name=find-a → parse action URL (session token) → POST func=find-b&find_code=WAU&request= → results 10/page with pagination.
• Full record: follow the result row's full-set-set link (session-dependent); gives translator, series, ISBN, UDC (verified: Нойманн «Амур и Психея» МИФ 2024, ISBN 978-5-00214-519-5, пер. М. Виноградова).
• Quirk: find_code WTI (title) and SYS (ISBN) return EMPTY 0-byte responses; only WAU (author) reliably works so far. libgen proxy (tools/rsl.py) still covers title/ISBN queries.
• search.rsl.ru — same catalog, Yii app, no JSON API found (2026-07-09).

21. ISBN validation pipeline — tools/isbnval.py (2026-07-15)

• Per ISBN: (1) libgen.vg biblioservice type=isbn — checksum + registered publisher group; (2) Open Library search.json?isbn= — title/author/year; (3) Google Books ?vid=ISBN curl — title tag, 200/404; (4) NLR free-text for RU misses. Random pauses 2–5s, resumable.
• Verdicts: VALID (found w/ matching title) / STRUCT-ONLY (real ISBN, prefix registered, not indexed — small-press RU) / BAD-STRUCT. Output TSV: data/isbn-validation.tsv.
• Found in sec04: 2 bad-check-digit typos (5-89613-003-6, 5-263-00368-2), 2 publisher-prefix mismatches (Ленанд vs URSS; Академический проект vs Азбука-Аттикус), 2 co-publishing prefixes (Петроглиф for ЦГИ 2020; Пальмира for Касталия 2025).
• triumph.ru (РГБ ISBN search, user-provided): https://www.triumph.ru/html/serv/find-isbn.php?isbn=<13digits> (relative to the poisk-isbn.html page!) → returns links to РГБ/МГУ/РНБ/БЕН РАН/ГПНТБ catalogs pre-filled with the ISBN. Itself no data; МГУ (nbmgu.ru) results are JS-rendered, БЕН РАН (Koha) is scrapable but small collection. NLR absence ≠ ISBN invalid.
• isbnsearch.org: nice per-ISBN pages (author/publisher/year) but rate-walls after ~10 requests ("Please Verify to Continue", no recovery in 7 min) — not for batches.

22. MGU Scientific Library (nbmgu.ru) — server-rendered, curl-able (2026-07-15)

• Tool: tools/mgu.py "query" [FIELD] [pages] [method] or --multi "AUT:X" "TIT:Y". The "JS" advanced search is a plain GET: /search/?adv=1&q1=<q>&f1=<F>&v1=<M>&cat=BOOK[&p=N].
• Fields: ANY/AUT/COA/TIT/KEY/RUB/YEA/PLA/PUB/SER/ISB/ISS/NBM; rows AND between q1..q3. Method v: 0=Слова (stemming, default) · 1=Словосочетание · 2=Начинается с · 3=Дословно.
• "Всего: N" + GOST row (title/authors/notes) + "City : Publisher, Year" + shelf code + uid link. 20 rows/page, p=0-based; out-of-range p silently falls back to page 0 (dedupe by uid!).
• ISB field NOT populated (0 hits, 3 formats × control ISBNs) — no ISBN search; use AUT/TIT/SER/PUB. storing.aspx?uid= page = holdings/order only (no full record).
• Value: second RU catalog (complements RSL/РНБ), strong SER sweep (e.g. «Библиотека аналитической психологии» → full series list in one query), GOST rows w/ translators.
• Anchor titles in result rows contain a raw > (title="Хранение
  Заказ") — regexes must not use [^>]+ across the anchor attrs.

Not usable / low value

• libgen biblioservice worldcat/googlebooks/isbndb/udc (broken on this mirror)
• imaton.com (МААП educational publisher, not translations)
• bookmate.com (403 bot protection), gtmarket.ru (JS app, no HTML content)
• other libgen mirrors (libgen.lol → error page; .vg works with browser UA)

Identity check protocol (MANDATORY before trusting a hit)

1. Life dates in RSL author field (e.g. Нойманн, Эрих [1905-1960]).
2. EN↔RU cross-mapping: the found person's other RU books must map to known EN titles (e.g. found «Страх феминного» + «Любовь и Душа» → EN Feminine + Love and its Opposites → same Erich Neumann).
3. Co-publisher signature: known translation pipelines (Vakler/Рефл-бук 1990s, Касталия, Прайм-Еврознак, АСТ/ЭКСМО, Питер «Мастера психологии»).
4. Content spot-check of the actual target title (open edition page / TOC) when equating an RU title with an EN title that sounds different (e.g. The Archetypal World of Henry Moore ⇄ «Искусство и творческое бессознательное» — verify it is about Moore).
5. Homonym rejection: different first name / field / era → reject or mark ambiguous (trap found: Верена Каст ≠ Вернер Каст; «Каст» search returns Verena Kast books).

Workflow (per section) — v2 (2026-07-09)

Phase 0 — Full names + identity (authors/):

1. Resolve every initial-only author to a full EN name: tools/ol.py 'title:"EN Title"' (author_name) → else tools/wd.py (QID + RU label) → else Google Books ISBN page → else publisher/review page. Write/extend the dossier authors/<slug>.md (EN full name, dates, RU name to query, name source); then add a one-line entry in the thin index sections/<n>/AUTHORS-EN.md linking to it. If the dossier already exists from another section, just append the new list item + link it.
2. For big names: wd.py gives life dates + the OFFICIAL RU label (best RSL spelling).
3. Build the transliteration matrix per author (2–3 variants: Нойманн/Нойман, Кох/Коч, Калфф/Кальфф, Ферс/Фёрт) — run every query with ALL variants.

Phase 1 — Author sweep (EN→RU): per author: rsl.py "<First> <Last>" → lg.py "<Last>" → cogito q=<Last> → flibusta ?ask=<Last> → livelib/chitai-gorod author page. Apply identity check. Fill author dossier.

Phase 2 — Title-gap sweep for still-unmatched books: rsl.py "<RU title words>" (check author field!), lg.py 2–3 whole-word title combos, cogito, flibusta by RU title, GBS SPb via SearXNG site:gbs.spb.ru.

Phase 2b — Publisher sweep (RU→EN, reverse direction): per Jungian RU publisher/imprint (Касталия, hi-human/Living Human Heritage, ЦГИ/Т8, Когито, Фантом Пресс, Азбука, Серебряные нити, Питер, Ваклер, Добросвет, Деметра, НикБук, Скифия, beta2alpha, Эксмо/АСТ психология): enumerate the full Jungian catalog (site search or RSL series queries: «Юнгианская психология», «Библиотека аналитической психологии», «Классики зарубежной психологии») → map every title to an EN original → backfill both missing items and future sections. This catches books author queries can never hit (generic titles like «Сборник статей», reworked titles).

Phase 2c — Community reading lists (oracles): ISAP Zurich, HSE (hse.ru/ma/therapy), МИСП, Jung Institute Moscow, education-psy.ru sandplay list, carljung.ru, koob.ru — these explicitly state which books have RU editions (or lack them). Scrape each, diff vs our ❌ list.

Phase 3 — Content verification (for suspicious candidates): when an RU title's mapping to an EN title is not obvious, verify 1:1 against the EN original: archive.org OCR text (TOC / editorial note) vs RU essay/chapter list (koob/livelib/preview). Example: Neumann «Сборник статей» = Art and the Creative Unconscious: Four Essays (4/4 essay match).

Phase 4 — Edition collection: ALL editions from ALL sources (title variants!), full metadata (publisher/year/pages/translator/ISBN) — prefer RSL/GBS SPb records (GOST) over shop data.

Phase 5 — Book notes + commits (one commit per completed book or meaningful author gain).

Negatives gate (before ❌): author sweep (RSL + libgen + cogito + flibusta) + one title-level SearXNG + livelib author page + one shop/retail check. Log every RU query in MISSING.md.

Special cases:

• Jung's CW volumes: translated and widely available — don't deep-search; note the RU volume for the item (CW15 = «Дух в человеке, искусстве и литературе», Харвест 2003; Red Book = «Красная книга (Liber Novus)», Касталия 2025, trans. О. Комков).
• Essays/chapters (e.g. Jaffé in Man and his Symbols): mark 🔶 if only the parent book/anthology is available in RU.

Politeness

• ~4s between libgen requests, ~3s between RSL pages, ~2s between shop requests.
• All tools cache nothing by default; reruns are fine but avoid duplicate queries in a batch.