The Zofingia Lectures

Supplementary Volume A

C.G. Jung, Gerald Adler, Michael Fordham, Sir Herbert Read, Jan Van Heurck

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780415213318
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317530367
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Movements in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

The Zofingia Club was a discussion group to which C.G. Jung belonged as a medical student: in 1897 he became Chairman, and gave five lectures. These have survived and are published here in a supplementary volume to the Collected Works.

The lectures are of great interest to anyone concerned with Jung's early ideas, as a young medical student from a strongly Swiss Protestant background. The Lectures are: The Border Zones of Exact Science (November 1896); Some Thoughts on Psychology (May 1897); An Inaugural Address on Becoming Chairman of the Zofingia Club; Thoughts on the Nature and Value of Speculative Inquiry (Summer 1898); and Thoughts on the Interpretation of Christianity with Reference to the Theory of Albrecht Ritschl (January 1899).

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

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• EDITORIAL NOTE
• 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)
• INDEX