General Alfried Jodl signs the unconditional German nation surrender document at Rheims, France, in order of the new Government Doenitz Although WWII may seem like a long way away, the psychological processes of projection are always present. We are still at war. At the end of this interview, Jung says, “I have already suggested that…
Pablo Picasso The Dream 1932 Mark Harris: C.G. Jung and Picasso In 1932, Carl Gustav Jung wrote a perceptive analysis of Picasso’s psychology after seeing an exhibition of his paintings at the Zürich Kunsthaus. The analysis was published in the Neue Züricher Zeitung. The article offended many of Picasso’s admirers in the artworld. In it…
Carl Jung was recruited by Allen Dulles, through Mary Bancroft, to provide psychological profiles of Hitler and the German psyche. Dulles met with him on several occasions; Eisenhower read his report before the final invasion of Germany. It is quite difficult to track down this information; some of it can be found in the furnished…
When I was in college in California in the late 60’s, the interest in Eastern philosophy was emerging in the Western culture; this was one of the forces behind the “Hippie Movement”. Richard Wilhelm’s translation of the I Ching and the Secret of the Golden Flower was one of the major influences in this cultural…
From the Forward: This assumption involves a certain curious principle that I have termed synchronicity, a concept that formulates a point of view diametrically opposed to that of causality. Since the latter is a merely statistical truth and not absolute, it is a sort of working hypothesis of how events evolve one out of another,…
A few years later Wilhelm was staying as a guest in my house, and came down with an attack of amoebic dysentery. It was a disease he had had twenty years before. His condition grew worse during the following months, and then I heard that Wilhelm was in the hospital. I went to Frankfurt to…
“I first met Richard Wilhelm at Count Keyserling’s during a meeting of the “School of Wisdom” in Darmstadt. That was in the early twenties. In 1923 we invited him to Zurich and he spoke on the I Ching (or Yi Jing) at the Psychology Club. Even before meeting him I had been interested in Oriental…
“…they were yung and easily freudened…“ James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake [Lucia and her father were] “like two people going to the bottom of a river, one falling and the other diving.” Interview with Carl Jung, Richard Ellmann The daughter of James Joyce, Lucia Joyce, was seen by Jung in 1934. She had been showing signs…