To the Rev. Kenneth Gordon Lafleur
Dear Sir, 11 June 1960
Thank you very much for your friendly letter.
I am glad to know that my ideas met an echo in yourself.
One sentence in your letter has puzzled me.
You write:
“I hope that you will not be too discouraged concerning the possibility of religion’s part in the necessary process of individuation of personality.”
I don’t see where you get the impression that I might be discouraged in this respect, since I was the first to emphasize the enormous role religion plays particularly in the individuation process, as I was the first to raise the question of the relation between psychotherapy and religion in its practical aspects.
I should hardly risk all these misunderstandings if I had been discouraged.
I can tell you moreover that it needed some courage to deal with the religious question at all.
I should appreciate it therefore all the more if you could kindly enlighten me about the meaning of the sentence quoted above.
Yours sincerely,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 566
