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…
As evidenced in the last post on Freud and Jung’s Ill-fated Arctic Expedition, photos these days are not necessarily “real.” However, as Jungian analyst Brian Collison suggested in one of his comments, the imaginal realm is also very real. So herewith are other well-photoshopped images from the site: I would like to imagine they were…
“Freud & Jung posing for a photo during an ill-fated arctic expedition ca. 1912. One man and three dogs met their deaths during this endeavor. This traumatic episode put a great deal of strain on the two mens’ relationship.” (Source) I must say, when I first came across the photos at this website, it was…
Spielrein is the person I wrote you about. … She was, of course, systematically planning my seduction, which I considered inopportune. Now she is seeking revenge. Letter of Jung to Freud, 4 June 1909 . Sabina Spielrein was Jung’s first patient. In the records at Burgholzli Hospital, Jung (1905) described her as “oriental” and “voluptuous,”…
From Fortean Times The Occult World of CG Jung Another who seemed to feel supernatural presences was his cousin, from his mother’s side of the family, Helene Preiswerk. In a letter to JB Rhine about the shattered bread knife, Jung refers to Helly – as she was known – as a “young woman with marked…
She was the foundation of my house. Carl Jung A man’s foremost interest should be his work. But [for] a woman, man is her work and her business. Yes, I know it sounds like a convenient philosophy of the selfish male when I say that. But marriage means a home. And home is like a…
For a number of years, I thought less of Jung because he had so many (alleged) extra-marital relationships, including relationships with his clients. However, if this is what it took for him to individuate as he did and to provide us with such profound insights into the nature of the psyche, then so be it….
Soul Stones From A Thousand Voices: It takes a Thousand Voices to Tell a Story Reverend Anthony David Jung 6, 2010 When Jung was ten, and feeling particularly alienated from his school-mates, and therefore at odds with himself, he found himself doing something with the “yellow, varnished pencil case of the kind commonly…
Carl Jung experienced a severe heart attack in 1944, at the age of sixty-eight. After his heart attack, he wrote much more directly about what was important to him and what he believed. It was a year later that Psychology and Alchemy was published. Heart attacks have a way of focusing your attention and puttings…