The psychohistory list is one of the most unusual on the Internet. I've been a member of it for almost five years and still it is impossible to gauge the daily messages its members will conjure up.
I want to begin my contribution to this panel with a disclaimer: I should not be here. For years I have been looking for a reference on the influence of the French psychology of the late nineteenth century on Jung's thought. I found not one article, but four, and all by the same person: John Haule in Boston.
Not everything painful is a truth. But very often truth is painful. I consider it the job of psychology, of psychoanalysis, to try to bring out and say the truth. Of course I do not know whether what I will write here will actually be the truth; this is not for me to decide.
This thesis focuses on the dialogue between the physicist Wolfgang Pauli (1900 - 1958) and the depth psychologist C.G. Jung (1875 - 1961). The central question of the thesis asks: Why was Pauli interested in Jung's psychology, and how was this interest expressed?
