137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession Part 17

Jung would help him discover it: Jung (1921), p. 594.

"a vague dread of the other s.e.x": Jung (1921), pp. 487489.

"has caught me and I can deal with it": Quoted from Joseph Henderson's conversations with Jung, "Carl Gustav Jung: 18751961," compiled and presented by Ean Begg, BBC Radio 3, July 27, 1975.

"he made up his mind to consult me": Jung (1936b), p. 6.

"blowing over from the lunatic asylum": Jung (1958a), pp. 538 and 540.

visions were driving him to distraction: See Jung (1944), p. 42; and Jung (1935), pp. 173 and 540.

"Therefore I won't touch it": Jung (1935), p. 174.

"appropriate man to treat me medically": Pauli to Rosenbaum, February 3, 1932, ETH Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen, ETH-Library, Hs. 176.

"and so he had spontaneous fantasies": Jung (1936b), pp. 7 and 8.

"He cannot be inferior": Jung (1959), p. 14.

"for having to read all this": Pauli to Rosenbaum, August 26, 1932, ETH Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen, ETH-Library, Hs. 176. There are no letters from Rosenbaum to Pauli in the archives. Perhaps Franca destroyed them after Pauli's death as she did with those of other women with whom Pauli corresponded.

"marvelous series of archetypal images": Jung (1935), p. 174.

others suspected it too: Personal communication from Fierz to Lindorff, see Lindorff (2004), p. 52.

referred to were indeed Pauli's: See Westman (1984), pp. 217218. While a.n.a.lyzing Pauli's essay on Kepler, Robert Westman, a historian of science, became curious as to whether Pauli had any close connection with Jung. He asked a colleague in Zurich to contact Meier.

The information actually could have been found over a decade earlier in a footnote in volume 18, published in 1977, of Jung's Collected Works. It was added by the translator, R. F. C. Hull, to a lecture that Jung gave in 1939 in London. (See CW18, p. 265 for full citation; the footnote is on p. 285 of Jung's lecture, The Symbolic Life.) In his lecture Jung spoke about the case of a "a great scientist, a very famous man, who lives today." Pauli was known to be a colleague of Jung's, and some friends knew they had a rather close relationship. Jung craved the attention of scientists, particularly physicists, and so came close to revealing the forbidden information.

Jung went into more detail in seminars in the United States during 1936 and 1937-see Jung (1936b, 1937a, 1937b). In 1944 Jung published a lengthy version of his dream a.n.a.lysis in Jung (1944).

"because there is n.o.body home": Jung (1937a), p. 96.

"get away from Father": Jung (1944), p. 49.

"and is always the victim": Jung (1936b), p. 81.

"He held my both hands and kissed me": Jung (1936b), p. 81.

he was no longer the center of attention: P/J [16P], February 28, 1936.

share her with another man: Jung (1936b), p. 79.

"of human knowledge and understanding": Jung (1958a), p. 540.

"the doc.u.mentary evidence of his sanity": Jung (1958a), p. 540.

trance states of shamans and medicine men: Jung (1916), p. 68.

trapped in a world of phantasmagoria: Jung (1935), p. 174; and von Franz (1972), pp. 108111.

"the unconscious as personified by the anima": Jung (1944), p. 112.

"and you will have the Philosopher's Stone": Jung (1937b), p. 54.

"completely throttling" the left: Jung (1944), pp. 154163.

"I am at one with myself": Jung (1944), p. 172.

"but still not good enough": Jung (1944), p. 174.

"a certain man of unpleasant aspect": Jung (1944), p. 177.

"the darkest hunting ground of our times": Jung to Progoff, January 30, 1954, copy at the ETH; quoted in Bair (2004), p. 553.

Chapter 9 * Mandalas.

dreams accompanied by his drawings: Jung (1944), p. 167.

"period of spiritual and human confusion": Pauli (1955b), p. 30.

"one revolution of the golden ring": Jung (1944), pp. 203204; and Jung (1937b), p. 66.

in the Kabbalah, signifying wisdom: Jung (1944), p. 206.

made up of forty-nine rotating spheres: See CW11, pp. 6872.

"produced the impression of 'most sublime harmony'": Jung (1937b), p. 72.

"discussed in medieval Christian philosophy": Jung (1937b), p. 74.

"the existence of an archetypal G.o.d-image": Jung (1937b), p. 59.

"became a perfectly normal and reasonable man": Jung (1935), p. 175.

"development of symbols of the self": Jung (1944), p. 215.

"outbursts of ecstasy and visions": P/J [30P], May 24, 1934.

"unless something untoward should arise": P/J [7P], October 27, 1934.

"is something I have since rather lost": Pauli to Hecke, October 20, 1938: PLC [534].

"mix my critical remarks with so much sugar": Pauli to Born, November 20, 1942: PLC3 [668].

"and a third not essentially influenced": MDR, p. 165.

Chapter 10 * The Superior Man Sets His Life in Order.

several high-level secretarial positions: Friedrich Adler was a colorful figure. As a young man he had been a promising physicist and a close friend of Einstein's, sharing as well an interest in Socialist politics. As a protest against the Austrian government's inst.i.tution of an autocratic military regime and its decision to dissolve the parliament in 1916, he walked up to the premier while he was eating lunch and shot him three times in the head. Adler was sentenced to death, despite support from leading figures including Einstein. The sentence was never carried out and he was released after the war.

"Now we marry": Quoted from Enz (2002), p. 286; from notes of Enz's conversations with Franca Bertram, March 21, April 6, and May 6, 1971.

"I am going to get married also": Weisskopf (1989), pp. 160161.

dark archetypes into his consciousness: P/J [29P], April 28, 1934.

Jung was "perfectly correct": P/J [29P], April 28, 1934.

"it secretly made a great impression on her": P/J [30P], May 24, 1934.

"the binding would be good": Enz (2002), pp. 247248, notes from Enz's interviews with Franca in 1971.

Franca had done him a favor: von Meyenn (1999), p. xxiii.

screamed that he wanted to "thrash someone": Enz (2002), p. 287, from conversations with Franca and Adolf Guggenbuhl, Jr.

"But I never did": Weisskopf (1989), p. 161.

"huge piece of work": von Meyenn (1999), p. xxv.

"of some interest to the psychologist": P/J [9P], June 22, 1935.

"our dream psychology": P/J [19J], March 6, 1937.

"radioactive nucleus": P/J [13P], October 2, 1935.

Pauli never once mentioned the topic: Weisskopf (1989), p. 165.

"by the conventional concept of time": P/J [22P], May 24, 1937; and P/J [23P], October 15, 1938.

"3 layers to a four-part object (clock)": P/J [23P], October 15, 1938.

about which Pauli had a severe phobia: P/J [29P], April 28, 1934.

"of these symbols than I do at the moment": P/J [29P], April 28, 1934.

"the 'blond beast' is stirring in its sleep": Jung (1935), pp. 163 and 164.

"Wotan the wanderer is on the move": Jung (1936c), p. 180.

"a higher potential than the Jewish": Jung (1934), p. 166.

"to Germanic and Slavic Christendom": Jung (1934), p. 166.

"Freud's brethren"-the Jews: Leon to Greene-members of the tercentenary committee-August 26, 1936. Quoted from Bair (2004), p. 419.

"the nightmare on the way to being dreamt": Quoted from Bair (2004), p. 419.

"have brought relief to many in distress": From the Harvard tercentenary book as quoted from Bair (2004), p. 421.

"lives in indissoluble union with the body": Jung (1936a). The quote is on p. 114.

Melville's novel Moby-d.i.c.k: Aaron (2001), p. 49.

Cobb shined them himself: Quoted from Bair (2004), p. 420. This story was related to Bair by an acquaintance of the Cobb family, who relished telling it.

"long overdue" book on alchemy: Jung to Jacobi, October 27, 1936: CLI.

fearing for his life, left immediately: As told by the American author Philip Wylie, a friend and one-time patient of Jung's. Wylie, however, left no written substantiation of Jung's story in his papers.

"really menaced and treated as a Jew": Pauli to Aydelotte, May 29, 1940, in PLC3, p. xxviii.

"his fitness for naturalization": Rothmund to Rohn, July 16, 1940, in Enz (1997), doc.u.ment II.31. Rothmund is rumored to be the person who came up with the idea of the "J" stamp as a way to cla.s.sify Jews crossing the Swiss frontier from Germany. The n.a.z.is went on to use it as a way to identify who was Jewish in Germany and Austria.

"Pauli's difficulty was due to a colleague": Enz (2002), p. 338.

"best wishes to you in this difficult time": P/J [31P], June 3, 1940.

pa.s.sed through the town of Lourdes: Hertha tells this story in her autobiographical account of those years in Pauli (1970).

initially been planned for only one year: The funding for his visit, from the Rockefeller Foundation, was scheduled to end in 1942. After some uncertainty, an arrangement was reached whereby Pauli's salary for an extended stay was split between the Inst.i.tute and the Rockefeller Foundation. See Enz (2002), p. 355.

"suffered very much-as for all emigre physicists": Scherrer to Rohn, October 15, 1941, in Enz (1997), doc.u.ment II.48.

the department's most important physicist: Personal communications from Professors Karl von Meyenn and Ulrich Mueller-Herold. Later in the war, when it was clear that Germany was losing, Scherrer collaborated with the Office of Strategic Services-the forerunner of the CIA-on a plot to kidnap Heisenberg. See Powers (2000). Scherrer retired from the ETH in 1960. He left no reminiscences and destroyed most of his personal papers.

take legal action against the ETH: Pauli to Wentzel, December 30, 1941: PLC3 [646]; see also the telegraph Pauli sent to Rohn on June 7, 1942 in Enz (1997), doc.u.ment II.62.

"The past years have been rather lonesome": Pauli to Casimir, October 11, 1945: PLC3 [780].

"legal complications cannot work on military problems": Oppenheimer to Pauli, May 20, 1943: PLC3[671].

nothing came of it: See PLC3, p. 166.

Franca had misgivings about her: Conversations of Karl von Meyenn with Franca Pauli.