Matter and Psyche terminal points of a polarity Letters Volume II To Werner Nowacki Dear Professor Nowacki, 22 March 1957 I don’t want to miss the chance of thanking you for your thoughtfulness in sending me your interesting article. Your ideas go back, in modern form, to the familiar world of Plato’s Timaeus, which was… 

Carl Jung: Transference, Willingness to Follow and Responsibility Transference, Willingness to Follow and Responsibility March 19, 1958 The following comments came a short time after Jung had told me how Freud had exhorted him – like father to son – to uphold the latter’s  theory of sexuality; Jung, however, had very early on fostered his… 

Carl Jung: Bachofen, Burckhardt the City of Basel Reminiscences of Bachofen, Burckhardt and the City of Basel October 1, 1957 The fallowing was C. G. Jung’s response to a question of Kurt Wolff about Bachofen and Burckhardt during a visit to Bollingen. My grandfather was from the same generation and era as Jakob Burckhardt and… 

Carl Jung on the Shadow. The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 8) II. The Shadow Whereas the contents of the personal unconscious are acquired during the individual’s lifetime, the contents of the collective unconscious are invariably archetypes that were present from the beginning. Their relation to the instincts…