Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli – Two Giants

In 1931, Pauli, a physics professor at a university in Zurich, consulted Jung about his psychological issues and alcohol use; his mother had committed suicide and his marriage, less than a year old, had broken up.On the work front, shortly after his divorce he announced (correctly) the possible existence of a new particle, the neutrino. Instead of analyzing Pauli's dreams himself, Jung sent Pauli to a student colleague, thinking it would be better if he did not conduct the sessions in person. He...
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ID-ing Cover Figures – KTQ! III

I'm often asked who is on the cover of III. Starting left to right, that's Milton Klonsky, a New York Village poet/critic/wiseman, who appears in this book only after he's dead. Then at the top, the psychologist Carl Jung, founder of depth psychology and the serious study of images, fairytales, psychological types, and other topics that bear his stamp. Next is Wolfgang Pauli, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was fascinated with his own dreams and used them as a way to expand his consc...
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Midwest Book Review – Biography Shelf

May 2014 Keep This Quiet! III: Initiations Margaret A. Hall Seculum University Press 5048 Amber Clay Lane, Raleigh, NC 27612 9780983704560, $17.95, 324pp, www.amazon.com Synopsis: Keep This Quiet! III - Initiations begins in the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich, where Margaret was enrolled in 1984. She is headed for a big initiation there, which she narrates for us - showing how initiations are life-transforming. Notably, she also dives into the debate between physicist Wolfgang Pauli and psy...
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