Collected Works of CG Jung, Volume 18

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BOLLINGEN SERIES XX
THE COLLECTED WORKS
OF
C. G. JUNG
VOLUME 18
EDITORS
t SIR HERBERT READ
MICHAEL FORDHAM, F.R.C.PSYCH., HON. F.B.PS.S.
GERHARD ADLER, PH.D.
WILLIAM MCGUIRE, executive editor

THE SYMBOLIC
LIFE
:\IISCELLANEOUS
WRITINGS
C. G. JUNG
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TRANSLATED BY R. F. C. HULL
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For the following. copyright in the U.S.A. has been assigned to Princeton
Cni\·ersity Press: Foreword to Fierz-David, The Dream of Poliphilo, copyright
1950 by Bollingen Foundation Inc. Foreword to Perry, The Self in Psychotic
Process, copyright. 1953, by the Regents of the Unh·ersity of California. Fore
word to Abegg, Ostasien denkt anders, copyright I 95~ by the Analytical Psy
chology Club of New York. Foreword to Neumann. Origins and History of
Consciousness, copyright I 954 by Bollingen Foundation Inc. Foreword to
Harding, Woman's .\fysteries, copyright © I 9.'i.'l by Dr. Esther Harding.
"Human Nature Does Not Yield Easily to Idealistic Advice," copyright ©
1955 by .\'ett-· Republic. Foreword to de Laszlo, Psyche and Symbol, copyright
© 1958 by Bollingen Foundation, Inc. Foreword to Bertine, Human Relation
ships, copyright 1958 by Eleanor Bertine. Foreword to Jacobi, Complex/Arche
type/Symbol, copyright © 1959 by Bollingen Foundation, Inc. "The Future of
Parapsychology." copyright© 1963 by International journal of Parapsychology.
"The Ta\·istock Lectures," copyright © 1968 by the Heirs of C. G. Jung.
"Answers to Questio~ on Freud," copyright © I 968 by the Analytical Psy
chology Club of New York. Foreword to Neumann, Depth Psychology and a
.\'ew Ethic, copyright © I 969 by the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical
Psychology, Inc., New York. "Depth Psychology and Self Knowledge," copy
right © I g6g, and "Adaptation, lndi\·iduation, Collecthity," copyright © 1970,
by the Analytical Psychology Club of New York. Foreword to Harding, The
Way of All Women, copyright © 1970 by the C. G. Jung Foundation for
Analytical Psychology, Inc .. New York. Foreword to Jacobi, The Psychology
of C. G. ]ung, copyright© 1973 by Jolande Jacobi. The following were copy
right in the U.S.A.: Foreword to Custance, Wisdom, .\ladness and Folly,
copyright 1952 by John Custance. Foreword to Jaffe, Apparitions and Precogni
tion, copyright © 1963 by Uni\·ersity Books Inc. Foreword to a catalogue on
alchemy, copyright © 1968 by Yale Uni\·ersity Library. Due acknowledgements
are made. "Sigmund Freud: 'On Dreams'.", "Marginal Note on Wittels: Die
Sexuelle Not," "A Comment on Tausk's Criticism of Nelken," and "Religion
and Psychology: Reply to Buber," copyright © 1973 by Princeton University
Press.
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Herbert Read
(1893-1968}
R. F. C. Hull
(1913-1974J

EDITORIAL NOTE
When these Collected Works were planned, during the late 194o's,
in consultation with Professor Jung, the Editors set aside a brief
final volume for "reviews, short articles, etc., of the psychoanalytic
period, later introductions, etc., Bibliography of Jung's Writings,
and General Index of the Collected Works." Now arriving at publi
cation soon after J ung's centenary year, this collection of miscellany
has become the most ample volume in the edition-and no longer
includes the Bibliography and General Index, which have been
assigned to volumes 19 and 20 respectively.
Volume 18 now contains more than one hundred and thirty
items, ranging in time from 1901, when Jung at 26 had just
accepted his first professional appointment as an assistant at the
Burgholzli, to 1961, shortly before his death. The collection, touch
ing upon virtually every aspect of Jung's professional and intellec
tual interest during a long life devoted to the exegesis of the symbol,
justifies its title, taken from a characteristic work of Jung's middle
years, the seminar given to the Guild of Pastoral Psychology in
London, 1939·
This profusion of material is the consequence of three factors.
After J ung retired from his active medical practice, in the early
195o's, until his death in June 1g6r, he devoted most of his time
to writing: not only the longer works for which a place was made
in the original scheme of the edition, but an unexpectedly large
number of forewords to books by pupils and colleagues, replies to
journalistic questionnaires, encyclopaedia articles, occasional ad
dresses, and letters (some of which, because of their technical char
acter, or because they were published elsewhere, are included in
Volume 18 rather than in the Letters volumes) . Of works in this
class, Jung wrote some fifty after 1950.
Secondly, research for the later volumes of the Collected Works,
EDITORIAL 1'\0TE
for the Letters \including The Freudj]ung Letters), and for the
General Bibliography has brought to light many reviews, short
articles, reports. etc., from the earlier years of Jung's career. A
considerable run of psychiatric reviews from the years r go6-I 9 I o
was discm·ered by Professor Henri F. Ellenberger and turned over
to the Editors, who wish to record their gratitude to him.
Finally, the Jung archives at Ki.isnacht have yielded several
manuscripts in a finished or virtually finished state, the earliest bei?g
a Igoi report on Freud's On Dreams. A related category of matenal
embraces abstracts of lectures , evidentlv. unwritten, the transcripts
of which were not read and approved by Jung. The abstracts them-
seh·es ha\·e been deemed worthv of inclusion in this volume.
"The Tavistock Lectures". and "The Symbolic Life" are ex
amples of oral material to whose transcription Jung had given his
apprm·al. The former work has become well known as Analytical
Psychology: Its Theory and Practice, under which title the present
version was published in I g68.
A. round I g6o, the Editors conceived the idea of adding to Vol
ume IS, The Spirit in Jfan, Art, and Literature, some of the fore
words that Jung had written for books by other persons, on the
ground that these statements were an expression of the archetype
of the spirit. J ung \Vas invited to make the choice, and his list
comprised fifteen forewords, to books by the following authors: Lily
A.begg, John Custance, Linda Fierz-Da\·id, ~Iichael Fordham,
~I. Esther Harding (two books), Aniela Jaffe, Olga Yon Koenig
Fachsenfeld, Rose ~fehlich, Fanny l\foser, John 'Yeir Perry, Carl
Ludwig Schleich, Gustav Schmaltz, Hans Schmid-Guisan, and
Oscar A. H. Schmitz. Subsequently, as the plan for a comprehensive
volume of miscellany took form, these forewords were retained in
Yolume 18.
The contents of the present Yolume-following after the three
longer and more general works in Parts I, II, and III-are arranged
as Parts IY through XVI, in the sequence of the volumes of the
Collected \\'orks to which they are related by subject, and chrono
logically within each Part. The result is sometimes arbitrarv, as
certain items could be assigned to more than one Yolume. Some
miscellanea were published in later editions or printings of the pre
vious volumes, . e.~., ':The Realities of . ~ractical Psychotherapy,"
now an appendtX m \' olume I 6, 2nd edrtlon; the prefatorv note to
the English edition of Psychology and Alchemy, now in· the 2nd
edition of Volume I 2 ; and the author's note to the first Ameri-
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EDITORIAL NOTE
can/English edition of Psychology of the Unconscious ( 1 g 16), now
in Volume 5, 2nd edition, 1974 printing.
The death of the translator, R.F.C. Hull, in December 1974,
after a prolonged illness, was a heavy loss to the entire enterprise.
He had, however, translated by far most of the contents of Volume
18. The contributions of other translators are indicated by their
initials in a footnote at the beginning of the translated item: A.S.B.
Glover, Ruth Horine, Hildegard Nagel, Jane D. Pratt, Lisa Ress,
and Wolfgang Sauerlander. To them the Editors are deeply grateful.
Mr. Glover, up until his death in g66, also played an important
1
part in the compilation and editing of the papers. Special acknowl
edgement must be made to two co-workers at the source, as it were,
who contributed greatly by searching out material and helping to
identify and annotate the texts: Marianne Niehus-Jung (d. 1965),
who was a co-editor of the Swiss edition of her father's collected
works, and Aniela Jaffe, who had been Jung's secretary and colla
borator with him in the writing of his memoirs.
Acknowledgement is made also to the following, who gave
valued assistance with research and advice with various editorial
problems: Mrs. Doris Albrecht, Dr. E. A. Bennet, Professor Ernst
Benz, Jonathan Dodd, Dr. 1\!Iartin Ebon, 1\frs. Antoinette Fierz,
C.H.A. Fleurent (British .Medical journal) Dr. M.-L. von Franz,
Dr. W. H. Gillespie, l\lichael Hamburger (also for permission to
J.
quote his translation of a poem of Holderlin), Havet (Unesco)",
Dr. Joseph Henderson, 1\Irs. Aniela Jaffe, Mrs. Ernest Jones, Mrs.
Jean Jones (American Psychiatric Association), Mr. and Mrs.
Franz Jung, Dr. James Kirsch, Pamela Long, Professor Dr. C. A.
1\,feier, Professor W. G. 1\foulton, Professor Henry A. Murray, Mrs.
Julie Neumann, Jacob Rabi (Al Hamishmar), Lisa Ress, Professor
Paul Roazen, Professor D. W. Robertson, Jr., Wolfgang Sauer
lauder, G. Spencer-Brown, Gerald Sykes, Professor Kurt Weinberg,
and Mrs. Shirley White ( BBC).
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