By C. G. Jung, Erich Neumann, Martin Liebscher, Heather McCartney
ISBN-10: 069116617X
ISBN-13: 9780691166179
C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann first met in 1933, at a seminar Jung used to be engaging in in Berlin. Jung was once fifty-seven years outdated and the world over acclaimed for his personal model of psychotherapy. Neumann, twenty-eight, had simply entire his reports in drugs. the 2 males struck up a correspondence that will proceed till Neumann's demise in 1960. A lifelong Zionist, Neumann fled Nazi Germany together with his kin and settled in Palestine in 1934, the place he may develop into the founder of analytical psychology sooner or later nation of Israel.
Presented the following in English for the 1st time are letters that supply a unprecedented examine the advance of Jung's mental theories from the Thirties onward in addition to the rising self-confidence of one other towering twentieth-century highbrow who was once frequently defined as Jung's so much proficient scholar. Neumann used to be one of many few correspondence companions of Jung's who was once capable of problem him intellectually and for my part. those letters make clear not just Jung's political angle towards Nazi Germany, his alleged anti-Semitism, and his mental concept of fascism, but additionally his figuring out of Jewish psychology and mysticism. They confirm Neumann's significance as a number one psychologist of his time and paint a desirable photo of the mental effect of immigration at the German Jewish intellectuals who settled in Palestine and helped to create the nation of Israel.
Featuring Martin Liebscher's authoritative creation and annotations, this quantity files essentially the most vital highbrow relationships within the heritage of analytical psychology.