Product Description

Eighty letters, written over twenty-six years, record that friendship, and are published here in English for the first time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #680806 in Books
• Published on: 2001-06-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 314 pages

Engelbert L. Schucking, Physics Today
Jung was thrilled by the opportunity to look into the subconscious of [Pauli,] one of the world's most brilliant minds.

From the Inside Flap
"These letters offer fascinating insight into the minds of two of the most influential thinkers of our time as they probe their own disciplines and each other's for affinities and correlatives between analytical psychology and quantum physics. The book fills a major need, coming as it does in an era when an understanding of psychology is increasingly important to those who seek connections between religion and science." (Deirdre Bair, winner of the National Book Award for Samuel Beckett and author of the forthcoming biography of C. G. Jung)

From the Back Cover
Wolfgang Pauli, world-renowned physicist, turned to Carl Jung for help, setting a standing appointment for Mondays at noon. Thus bloomed an extraordinary intellectual conjunction. Eighty letters, written over twenty-six years, record that friendship, and are published here in English for the first time.Through the association of these two pioneering thinkers, developments in physics profoundly influenced the evolution of Jungian psychology. And many of Jung's abiding themes shaped how Pauli - and, through him, other physicists - understood the physical world. Atom and Archetype will appeal not only to those interested in the life of Pauli or Jung, but also to the educated general reader.