Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Supplementary Volume A

The Zofingia Lectures

C. G. Jung

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780691259468
  9780691098999
• eBook ISBN:
  9780691214597
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychoanalysis
• Index: Psychology

The authoritative edition of the revealing lectures Jung delivered during medical school

In spring 1895, shortly after he had enrolled in the medical school of Basel University, C. G. Jung became a member of the Zofingia Society, a Swiss student fraternity. The five lectures he gave to his Zofingia colleagues during the following four years represent, as Ernst Benz has written, “a valuable clarification of the suppositions of Jung’s scientific thought and of the bases of his religious views.”

Confirming that Jung’s concern with Freudian psychoanalysis was a diversion in his intellectual development, these lectures, published here for the first time, anticipate his mature interest in empirical psychology, spiritualism, the occult, and the metaphysical. The topics include aspects of Christianity, with a critique of the thought of the theologian Albrecht Ritschl; the limits of exact science; and rational and empirical psychology. The annotation for the volume is by William McGuire and Jan van Heurck.

INDEX

INDEX

A

absolute, as One, 77

absorption, inorganic principle of, 80

abstraction, as source of erroneous conclusions, 68

Academy, French, 42

actio in distans (long-range effect), 40ff.

“active imagination,” a form of meditation used by Jung, xxiv

activity: life as highest, 85; as root of human nature, 85. See also energy, passive and active

actus purus, in Ritschl’s thought, 97, 101

adhesion, inorganic principle of, 80

Adler, Gerhard, xxin

Aether, 11n. See also ether

affinity, inorganic principle of, 80

Aksakov, Alexander, 35

alchemy, xxiv

Alsace-Lorraine, 105

America, 69

angel, miracle of, at Bethesda, 98

archetype, foreshadowing of concept of, xxi

argumentum ad hominem, 74

argumentum ad rem, 74

Ariadne, 18

Aristotle, (quote) 87, (quote) 98

Armenia, persecution of, 10

Athens, as educational ideal, 56

atom, definition of, 15f.

atomic theory, 11, 15

Austral Islands (French Polynesia), 76n

“authorities,” scholarly, 7f.

B

Barnes, Jonathan, 87n

Barth, Karl, xxiii

Basel, 3, 37, 53, 59, 71n

Basel University, 5n; and the Zofingia fraternity, xiii

Bastian, Henry Charlton, 16

Bauer, E., xvin

Berlin, 6, 71n

Berlin University, 6

Bernoulli, Carl Albrecht, 75n; his novel Lucas Heland, (quote) 74-75

Bethesda, see angel

Bible, miraculous elements of, 43; Biblical sayings of Jesus, xxiii. See also under individual books; Jerusalem Bible

Binzer, August, 47n

Birkhäuser, Kaspar, xvn

Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 42n, (quote) 54

Boehme, Jakob, xxii, 110; and the opposites, (quote) 79, (quote) 83

Brenner, 55

“Breo” pub, xiv

Breslau, 84n

British Association, 36

Büchner, Ludwig, 36, 44, 107, 108n

Buddha, xxiii, 96f.

Burckhardt, Abel, 53

Burckhardt, Jakob, 53n

Burdach, Karl Friedrich, (quote) 29, (quote) 30

Burschenschaften (German student associations), xv

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 86

C

capillarity, inorganic principle of, 80

careerism, 10

categorical imperative, xx, 66, 67n, 68n

categories, a priori, 68

cathode rays, 24n

causal instinct: as...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Editorial Note
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction, by Marie-Louise von Franz
• I. The Border Zones of Exact Science (November 1896)
• II. Some Thoughts on Psychology (May 1897)
• III. Inaugural Address, Upon Assuming the Chairmanship of the Zofingia Club (Winter Semester 1897/98)
• IV. Thoughts on the Nature and Value of Speculative Inquiry (Summer Semester 1898)
• V. Thoughts on the Interpretation of Christianity, with reference to the Theory of Albrecht Ritschl (January 1899)
• Appendix: Texts
• Index