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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/             # one dossier per author (created on demand)
sections/0N-<name>/  # one .md per BOOK (chapter-level list items are merged into the book file)

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) hold: EN identity (3–5 flagship EN titles, dates), RU surname candidates (all plausible transliterations, German names often have several: Нойманн/Нойман/Нейманн), verified RU works with EN mapping, homonym warnings.
  • 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 only decodes ISBN structure.

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.

Not usable / low value

  • libgen biblioservice worldcat/googlebooks/isbndb/udc (broken on this mirror)
  • imaton.com (МААП educational publisher, not translations)
  • 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)

Phase 0 — Author dossiers (authors/): EN identity + RU surname candidates. Phase 1 — Author sweep: per author: rsl.py "<First> <Last>" → lg.py "<Last>" → cogito q=<Last>. Apply identity check. Fill author dossier. Phase 2 — Title-gap sweep for still-unmatched books: rsl.py "<RU title words>" (check the author field!), lg.py 2–3 whole-word title combos, cogito. Negatives: one SearXNG <EN title> «русский перевод» before declaring ❌. Phase 3 — Edition collection: ALL editions from ALL sources (title variants! books are reissued under slightly different names), with full metadata. Phase 4 — Book notes + commits.

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.