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JUNG, Carl Gustav (1875-1961).

Lot 90
12.07.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 90 | JUNG, Carl Gustav (1875-1961).
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JUNG, Carl Gustav (1875-1961).

Autograph letter signed (‘C.G. Jung’) to Fräulein Dr R. Schärf, Berghus, Rigi-Staffel, 16 November 1947.

In German. 2 pages, 211 x 149mm, on a bifolium with printed address heading. Envelope. With an English translation.



‘The arena and the stake are no longer on the outside, they are within us’: on Leviathan, Behemoth and the interpretation of a dream. Jung thanks the recipient for ‘the interesting Ras Shamra material on the subject of the Leviathan. Accordingly, it seems quite likely to me that originally there was only one snake … The 7 heads = 7 planets, the snake as the shadow of the 7 gods?’. He goes on to offer an interpretation of Schärf’s dream: ‘The younger man and the older man of your dream point to 2 time periods, an older point of view and a younger one, both of them may be renounced before the king, the authority of this world, i.e. Judaeo-Christianism and psychology, -- both of them are in the arena for the ordeal, however, i.e. they are subject to the judgement of God … It is the indignation of history within you towards the new religious views that entangle modern man in horrible moral conflicts. The conflict, however, is the conjunctio oppositorum (the struggle between Leviathan and Behemoth or between the two snakes!!). The arena and the stake are no longer on the outside, they are within us’. A postscript refers to an interpretation of the Leviathan by Moses Maimonides, that it ‘represents the principle of corporeality’.



Ras Shamra, more commonly known as Ugarit, is an ancient port city in northern Syria, discovered in 1928. Finds at the site included a corpus of religious and mythological literature.





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