Carl Jung: I have also analysed a Parsee
Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950 (Vol 1)
To J. Wilhelm Hauer
Dear Professor Hauer, 7 June 1937
Excuse my long silence, but I am so busy at present that I have practically no time to attend to my correspondence.
I have considered your suggestion and welcome the idea of a meeting.
A seminar on comparative religion would be particularly valuable to us.
But as I don’t know how you would take to this idea, please tell me what you think about it.
The connection between race and religion, which you have in mind, is a very difficult theme.
Since the anthropological concept of race as an essentially biological factor remains completely unclarified, to demonstrate a connection between religion and this scarcely definable factor seems to me almost too bold an undertaking.
I myself have personally treated very many Jews and know their psychology in its deepest recesses, so I can recognize the relation of their racial psychology to their religion, but it would be quite beyond me to relate Islam or the ancient Egyptian religion to its devotees as I lack any intimate knowledge of Arab and Egyptian psychology.
I would be just as incapable of establishing a real connection between the non-Semitic Berber race and the Aryan Mohammedan population of India.
I have some insight into Indian psychology and have also analysed a Parsee, but would not be able to relate Parseeism, which is essentially different from the Indian religion, to what I know of the racial psychology of the Indians.
I see enormous scientific difficulties in this field which could hardly be dealt with in a seminar.
Hence I would rather suggest to you a theme on comparative religion and would ask you to let me know your opinion.
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Page 233
This brief note is just to thank you with all my heart.
My dear Professor Jung, Oct. 14, 1945
Blackfriars
Oxford
Telephone, 3607
14.10.4540
I had hardly thanked you for your first letter when your second letter arrived. It has quite staggered me.
It will unfortunately be some days before
I have an opportunity to reply to it.
This brief note is just to thank you with all my heart.
Meanwhile, “It” simply insists that I send you an unadorned record of my January dream which I have already mentioned.
Of course I do not expect you to analyse it, but I think it may interest & amuse you, & perhaps tell you much more than “ego” can about me.
I look forward very much to writing to you later in the week.
Yours very sincerely & gratefully,
VICTOR WHITE, O.P. ~Victor White, Jung-White Letters, Page 13
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