Letter from Carl Jung to Alice Lewisohn Crowley suggesting Suicide
Letter from Carl Jung to Alice Lewisohn Crowley suggesting Suicide:
My Dear Mrs. Crowley, 20 December 1941
I begin to feel my age and whenever I get a bit too tired I also feel my heart and that is decidedly disagreeable and makes me cross with the whole world, which is damnable anyhow. I went through a period of black depression during the first 4 days. Only yesterday I began to feel human again. And then your situation in Europe came back to me with a bang!
I beg you to consider your life. If they are going to send you to Poland, you only can suicide yourself. Please forgive this crudeness! It is my anxiety for your life which makes me say such things. Remember, I warned you before America went to war. It is urgent that you do something and quick! Europe is in a desperate situation.
I am sorry and I am helpless.
Yours affectionately, C.G. Jung
Note: The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
Image: The main gate at the former Nazi death camp of Birkenau. Note that this is inside the camp looking back from the loading ramp to the “Gate of Death”.
