Lot 4487
Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961) Swiss-German psychoanalyst who, with Sigmund Freud, brought psychology into the 20th century. He broke with Freud over Freud's reductionist, psychosexual view of the unconscious. Typed Letter Signed ("C.G. Jung") on "Prof. Dr. C.G. Jung / Küsnacht-Zürich / /Seestrasse 228" stationery, March 2, 1957, 1½ pp, quarto. In German, with eight holograph corrections, to Prof. Dr. Ernst Hanhart. He writes, in part:
"My sincere thanks for your enlightening remarks. Allow me a few annotations to your manuscript. I would be pleased if you would treat my analysis of the Freudian character with discretion. I actually communicated my opinions to you sub secreto medici. Because my opinions stemmed from intimate acquaintanceship with him, and moreover they hint at certain backgrounds for the initiated….It is always taken for granted…that my critical dispute with Freud originated from a purely personal hostility on my part. Instead of using Freud and Adler as examples, you could use Nietsche and Wagner, the Dionysian and Apollonian example, or the Jordanian descriptions. It should also be noted, that I characterized neither Adler nor Freud personally as introverted or extraverted, but this classification would be received from your manner of expression. With this, the question of the actual personality type remains open. I knew Adler personally very slightly, and therefore I can say little about his actual personality. On the other hand, I knew Freud very well. He was without a doubt a neurotic. Now we know from experience that in the case of neurosis, it is often extraordinarily difficult to determine the actual type, because at first, and for a relatively long period thereafter, one does not know what one is observing, conscious or unconscious behaviour. Freud's range of ideas has indubitably an extraverted character, that is, pleasure and aversion to the object. Adler, on the other hand, shows an introverted character, insofar as he stressed the power of the ego as decisive…. " Jung goes on to discuss "the problem of the small but decisive chance incidents" that "form the quite special problem of acausal arrangements as significant coincidences….," as well as the need to divest "self-punishment" of its ego character. With English translation. A superb letter!
Estimated Value $8,000 - 10,000.
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