a semi-annual publication of the Spring 2005 philem n foundation Volume 1, Issue 1 JUNG HISTORY: A Semi-Annual Publication of the FOUNDATION PROJECTS Philemon Foundation, Volume 1, Issue 1 THE JUNG-WHITE LETTERS : PAGE TWO Murray Stein The Philemon Foundation was founded at the end of EXCERPT FROM THE INTRODUCTION 2003, and since this time, has made critical contribu- TO THE JUNG-WHITE LETTERS : PAGE FOUR tions to a number of ongoing projects preparing for Ann Lammers publication the still unpublished works of C. G. Jung. The Foundation is grateful to its donors who have MODERN PSYCHOLOGY : PAGE EIGHT made this work possible. Jung History, which will Sonu Shamdasani appear semi-annually, will provide accounts of some SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY of the ongoing research supported by the Philemon (ETH): COLLATING THE TEXT OF THE Foundation and other news. 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The first is financially by making a donation Dreams Seminar that will enable our scholar editors to continue their • A full edition, based on recently discovered present projects and begin new ones. The second notes of Jung’s ETH Lectures from 1933–1941 is to spread the good word to other friends of • The entire correspondence between Jung and Jung who might also wish to make a donation. the Dominican priest, Victor White Contributions can be made by check, wire transfer, • The long-awaited and nearly complete or on our secure website. The boldness of my edition of Jung’s Red Book. request for help is fueled by an image that I have Some of these editions will appear in late 2005 and been carrying since Philemon’s inception: If C. G. early 2006; further projects are in the planning Jung were to come to me for support in order to publish his stages and will commence in the coming year. We unpublished material, would I help? My own answer has anticipate that our work will take upwards of thirty been a resounding yes, and I hope yours will be too. years to complete and will likely reach thirty addi- tional volumes beyond the Collected Works, the eventual Stephen A. Martin, Psy.D. retranslation of which we intend to sponsor. President : jung history 1:1 THE JUNG-WHITE LETTERS MURRAY STEIN his edition of the understandings. In the dialogue with White, this letters between eventually caused a major and, as it turned out, Prof. C.G. Jung insoluble conflict. Theology and psychology are and Fr. Victor quite distinct disciplines that proceed from widely White is the third major collec- different assumptions and employ incompatible tion of Jung’s correspondences methodologies, and the consequences of this Jung to be published. The first was and White did not know quite as profoundly at the the famous exchange between outset as at the conclusion of their exchanges. On Jung and Freud, edited by the question of evil, their thoughts diverged irrevo- William McGuire. The second cably. When Jung put forward his most distinctive was that between Jung and forthright psychological reflections on Biblical and Wolfgang Pauli, the theology and Christian doctrine in Answer to Job — physicist, edited by C. A. Meier. Now in this corre- which was also his answer to White! — much of it spondence with White we see Jung in dialogue with flew directly in the face of the received doctrine that a theologian. had anchored White’s life and career. All three collections of letters tell us a great deal Many of Jung’s more substantial letters in this about the human matrix underlying the formal the- correspondence have been published previously in oretical and scientific writings that in some measure the collection edited by Gerhard Adler. None of derive from and surely are deeply influenced by White’s side of the correspondence, however, has these important relationships. With respect to previously been available. Until now, one had to Jung’s side of the equation, in each collection, too, read between the lines and do a lot of guesswork to we discover a different side of his complex person- discern the fullness of their personal relationship ality and another facet of his brilliant mind. It is and the details of their intellectual exchange. With noteworthy that he was able to carry on such signif- this publication of the complete correspondence, it icant exchanges with three figures of the highest becomes quite evident that the engagement with standing in their own fields of expertise, each having White was for Jung an essential dialogue that con- a completely different background and specialization. tributed importantly to his late writings. The tor- Each set of letters shows a complex and tured argument with White over personal human connection between the the place of evil in theological doc- correspondents as well as an intellectual trines of God (their ongoing dis- dialogue of the highest caliber. pute over the infamous ‘privatio boni’ From these letters between Jung and doctrine) pushed Jung toward refin- White, we can see that the main subject ing and deepening his critique of matter of their discussions was the rela- classical theology, which then tionship between psychology and religion. appeared in full force in Aion However, the correspondence also reflects © Erbengemeinschaft C. G. Jung (1951) and Answer to Job (1952). the trajectory of their personal relation- White, one could say, sharpened ship, from the high excitement of mutual recogni- Jung’s sword by dueling with him for several years tion at the beginning, through the realization of before he entered the public arena with his pub- crucial differences in attitude and philosophical lished writings.