Analytical Psychology in Exile

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Analytical Psychology in Exile
A list of Jung’s works appears at the back of the volume.
Analytical Psychology in Exile
The Correspondence of
C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann
C. G. JUNG AND ERICH NEUMANN
EDITED BY MARTIN LIEBSCHER
TRANSLATED BY HEATHER MCCARTNEY
PUBLISHED WITH SUPPORT OF THE PHILEMON FOUNDATION
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Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875–1961.
[Correspondence. Selections. English]
Analytical psychology in exile : the correspondence of C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann
/ C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann ; edited by Martin Liebscher ; translated by Heather
McCartney.
pages cm. — (Philemon series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-691-16617-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875–1961—
Correspondence. 2. Neumann, Erich—Correspondence. 3. Psychoanalysts—Switzerland—
Correspondence. 4. Psychologists—Israel—Correspondence. 5. Psychoanalysis. 6. Jungian
psychology. I. Liebscher, Martin. II. Neumann, Erich. Correspondence. Selections. English.
III. Title.
BF173.J85A4 2015
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction xi
I. The First Encounter xi
II. C. G. Jung in the 1930s xiv
III. Correspondence between Palestine and Zurich, 1934– 40 xviii
Zionism, the Jewish People, and Palestine xviii
The Earth Archetype xx
Discussing Anti- Semitism xxi
Kirsch- Neumann Controversy xxvii
The Rosenthal Review xxviii
Last Time in Zurich xxx
IV. The Long Interval, 1940– 45 xxxii
V. Correspondence between Israel and Zurich, 1945– 60 xxxiv
In Touch with Europe Again xxxiv
Coming Back to Switzerland xxxvii
Enemies in Zurich: The New Ethic xlii
Partial Reconciliation with Zurich l
Late Recognition liv
VI. The Legacy of Erich Neumann lv
Editorial Remarks lix
Translator’s Note lxi
List of Letters 1
Correspondence 7
Appendix I 355
Appendix II 361
Bibliography 371
Index 411

Acknowledgments
Over the last few years my research for the edition of this
correspondence found me most of the time alone at my desk or
in obscure archives and libraries around the world. Despite
this lonesome task I was always aware that at the end of the day this
work has always been a team effort and would not have been possi-
ble without the support and help of many who need to be men-
tioned here as an integral part of this project.
Up and foremost, it was the Philemon Foundation that made this
publication possible. In particular, I would like to express my deep
gratitude to its president, Judith Harris, for her invaluable contribu-
tion, and to the board of the foundation, Michael Marsman, Craig
Stephenson, Caterina Vezzoli, and Beverley Za bris kie. The Philemon
Foundation would like to acknowledge that this edition was made
possible by Nancy Furlotti through a donation from the Furlotti
Family Foundation.
It is to the credits of the heirs of both C. G. Jung and Erich Neu-
mann that this important piece of intellectual history can now be
presented to the public for the first time. The Community of Heirs
of C. G. Jung and the Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung was al-
ways supportive of this publication. Ulrich Hoerni and his successor
as head of the foundation, Dr. Thomas Fischer, not only granted me
access to the relevant material in the Jung archive at the ETH Zurich
and the library in Küsnacht, but also helped me through their knowl-
edge and expertise in matters Jung. The same is true for Andreas Jung,
whose warm welcome to Küsnacht was very much appreciated.
My special thanks also go to the heirs of Erich Neumann, his
daughter Rali Loewenthal- Neumann and his son Professor Micha
viii • Acknowledgments
Neumann. They supported me with information and help through-
out the duration of my work. Rali welcomed me with open arms to
her home in Jerusalem while I was looking through the papers of her
father. Thanks to her these days will always be a precious and unfor-
gettable memory to me.
Of course this correspondence would never have seen the light of
the day without the constant struggle of Professor Sonu Shamdasani,
my friend, colleague, and main editor for the Philemon Foundation.
As always I profited enormously from his advice and expertise as the
eminent scholar on Jung history.
I would also like to thank translator Heather McCartney for pro-
viding us with an excellent translation of this correspondence. Work-
ing together was a great experience for me.
It was during my research stay in Israel that I met Dr. Erel Shalit in
person for the first time. Erel was instrumental to the publication of
this correspondence. As spokesman for the family Neumann, expert
in the psychology of Erich Neumann, and through his careful reading
of the manuscript Erel has become indispensable to this project.
My thanks also go to Dr. Heide Kunzelmann (University of Kent)
and Christopher Barenberg, PhD (University of London) for their
willingness to take on the laborious and difficult task of transcribing
the letters.
The following persons and institutions helped me with my re-
search: the Jung archive at the library of the ETH Zurich, especially
Dr. Yvonne Voegeli, whose help and expertise facilitated my archival
research a great deal; the Curatorium of the C. G. Jung Institute Zu-
rich, especially Daniel Baumann, dipl. Arch., Robert Hinshaw, PhD,
and the librarian Vicente de Moura; the Psychology Club Zurich, its
president Dr. Andreas Schweizer, its curator Emanuel Kennedy and
the club’s librarian Frau Gudrun Seel; Frau Bettina Kaufmann at the
Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung; the archive of the Zentralbib-
liothek Zurich; the Eranos Foundation, especially Frau Gisela Binder,
for her warm welcome at the Casa Gabriella, and Dr. Sandro Rusconi;
the Frankfurt Exil Archiv and its archivist Dr. Sylvia Asmus; the Liter-
aturarchiv Marbach; the librarians of the Kunsthaus Zurich, espe-
cially Thomas Rosemann and Tina Fritzsche; Safron Rossi, PhD, cura-
tor of the OPUS Archives & Research Center at the Pacifica Graduate
Acknowledgments • ix
Institute; Aletha van der Velde of the Philosophy Department at the
Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte; Lance Owen, MD; Dr. Gio-
vanni Sorge; Dr. Ernst Falzeder; Professor Graham Richards; Eve
Devoldere (Dutch translation); and Angus Nicholls, PhD.
For assistance with the publication of this work I would like to
thank the team at Princeton University Press, especially Fred Appel,
Juliana Fidler, Leslie Grundfest, and Dawn Hall, who copyedited the
volume.
The photographs for this volume have been provided by Mrs. Rali
Loewenthal- Neumann and Dr. Paul Kugler, for which I would like to
express my gratitude. We are indebted to the Fondazione Eranos, As-
cona, for granting the permission to consult its archives and print the
photographs figures 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9. The cover picture by William
Blake belongs to the Morgan Library, New York, who granted permis-
sion to use it; the William Blake archive provided us with a copy.
Finally I would like to thank my wife Luz Nelly for her ongoing
love and support.
Dr. Martin Liebscher