Carl Jung (1875-1961)

Valeur estimée
£ 2 500 – 3 500
Date de l'enchèreClassic
10.07.2024 00:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Royaume-Uni, London
ID 1249879
Lot 91 | Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Typed letter signed (‘C.G. Jung’) to E.O. Hauser, Küsnacht-Zürich, 26 May 1958, with notes of an interview with Jung in 1935, and a photograph
In German. One page, 292 x 217mm, on headed paper; [with]: notes of an interview with Jung in English by members of the Geneva Quaker Group, 29 June 1935, comprising a manuscript in the hand of Irene Pickard, typescript ‘Notes on interview with Dr. Carl Jung by Elfrida Just’, 7 pages, and a typed description of the background to the interview by Irene Pickard, Maurice and Rosalie Stack, together 18 pages. Provenance: Sotheby’s, 8 December 2009, Lot 229; [and] Photograph of Jung, 281 x 194mm, mounted on card with clipped signature, 84 x 39mm. Provenance: International Autograph Auctions Ltd, 24 May 2009, lot 626.

Jung expresses gratitude for competent journalism, in the year the press misquoted him on flying saucers. He writes to the Paris-based journalist, ‘your interview came into my hands, and I wish to thank you personally for the friendly attitude expressed in it, and for your widely objective report. One can see from your report that it is based upon deep understanding and knowledge, in pleasing contrast to the many other interviews which lack all competence’. Jung’s criticism of journalism originated in 1958, the same year his book Flying saucers was published, after the worldwide press misreported him as a ‘saucer-believer’ based on an interview he had given to the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche four years earlier, in which he had in fact expressed doubts about the existence of UFOs.

The accompanying group of notes from Jung's interview with the Geneva Quaker Group in 1935 record his insights, apparently unpublished, on psychoanalysis, the personal subconscious, the collective unconscious, his own shadow, individuation, the anima, archetypes (‘...tricks to help life cheat circumstances...’), the current political situation in Europe, religion (‘...I don't believe in “big” things. Catholic Church, German army, etc.’; ‘I don’t want anything to be done with Germany ... Put yourself in order! ..."), individuation and the self (‘Man is the worst vermin of all’).
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