Von Franz - Psyche and Matter

ABOUT THE BOOK

Twelve essays by the distinguished analyst Marie-Louise von Franzfive of them appearing in English for the first timediscuss synchronicity, number and time, and contemporary areas of rapprochement between the natural sciences and analytical psychology with regard to the relationship between mind and matter. This last question is among the most crucial today for fields as varied as microphysics, psychosomatic medicine, biology, quantum physics, and depth psychology.

MARIE-LOUISE VON FRANZ (19151998) was the foremost student of C. G. Jung, with whom she worked closely from 1934 until his death in 1961. A founder of the C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich, she published widely on subjects including alchemy, dreams, fairy tales, personality types, and psychotherapy.

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PSYCHE AND MATTER

MARIE-LOUISE VON FRANZ

Foreword by Robert Hinshaw

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Originally published by Daimon Verlag, Einsiedeln, Switzerland, under the title Psyche und Materie, 1988 by Daimon Verlag.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Franz, Marie-Louise von, 1915

[Psyche und Materie. English]

Psyche and matter / Marie-Louise von Franz.

p. cm.

Translation of: Psyche und Materie.

C. G. Jung Foundation book.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Coincidence. 2. Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 18751961. 3. Time perception. I. Title.

BF175.5.C65F7313 1992 91-53229

150.1954dc20 CIP

This is the second volume in a series collecting the essays and lectures of Marie-Louise von Franz by subject for the first time. On the heels of the first volume (Dreams, published in spring 1991), which is devoted to the phenomenon of dreams, we are pleased now to present the second volume, with its theme of Psyche and Matter. Included are lengthy presentations on synchronicity, the nearly simultaneous occurrence of two or more events that are not causally connected but are a meaningful coincidence. The concept of time is also investigated, as are contemporary potentials of rapprochement between the natural sciences and analytical psychology, in particular with regard to the relationship of mind and matter.

This last question is among the most crucial today for fields of research as varied as microphysics, quantum physics, psychosomatic medicine, biology, and depth psychology. Marie-Louise von Franz has concerned herself for more than thirty years with the issues, new discoveries, and hypotheses connected with this theme, from both psychological and natural science points of view. Her own observations, hypotheses, and conclusions have been presented in numerous articles, essays, and lectures over the years, but many of them were unavailable in English until now. Thus the urgency of this series, bringing together the fruits of her labors in standardized single-language volumes.

All of the articles have been revised and updated, and some were completely reworked by the author. They appeared originally in the years from 1960 to 1986 and are now, as then, of great relevance for contemporary holistic thought.

With the agreement of the author, we have structured each volume according to the general degree of complexity and the thematic affinity of the individual articles rather than placing them in chronological order. Bibliographic data concerning the place and date of original publication are given in the Sources section, and a bibliography appears at the end of the book.

Because the articles included here were originally written for a wide variety of interest groups or publication vehicles rather than conceived as successive chapters of a book, there is a small amount of overlapping of content; completely eliminating such repetitions would have detracted from the continuity of certain sections, so a looser editorial policy was adopted in this respect.

We would like to thank the author and all who helped to bring together these papers from many a journal or filing cabinet, and also to thank the previous publishers who agreed to their publication in this new and unified form.

Robert Hinshaw

Daimon Verlag

Einsiedeln, Switzerland

Matter and Psyche from the Point of View of the Psychology of C. G. Jung (Materie und Psyche in der Sicht der Psychologie C. G. Jungs) was originally delivered as a lecture at the Conference of the Evangelical Academy of Baden Baden in Herrenalb, October 1113, 1974. The German version of the recorded proceedings of the conference was checked and reworked by the author. The English translation is by Michael H. Kohn. Copyright 1992 by Shambhala Publications, Inc.

Symbols of the Unus Mundus (Symbole des Unus Mundus) first appeared in Dialog ber den Menschen: Eine Festschrift zum 75. Geburtstag von Wilhelm Bitter (Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag, 1968). An English translation appeared in The Reality of the Psyche: Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Analytical Psychology, edited by Joseph Wheelwright (New York: G. P. Putnams Sons/C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, 1968). That translation has been expanded here. Copyright 1992 by Marie-Louise von Franz.

Time: Rhythm and Repose was published as a book by Thames and Hudson, Inc., in 1978. Copyright 1978 by Marie-Louise von Franz. Reprinted by permission of Thames and Hudson.

The Psychological Experience of Time first appeared in English in the Eranos Yearbook 1978, vol. 47 (Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1979), containing lectures given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona, August 2331, 1978. Copyright 1979 by Marie-Louise von Franz.

Psyche and Matter in Alchemy and Modern Science was a paper delivered at the opening of the Jung Centennial Pro Helvetia Exhibit in Zurich in 1975 and subsequently in New York. It appeared in