Carl Jung Superb Unpublished ALS on Dreams & Religion

Autograph Letter Signed, "C.G. Jung", in German, 2pp on a single sheet of his personal letterhead, 8.25" x 11.625", St. Gallen, September 3, 1950. Includes full translation. Accompanied by Jung's personal mailing envelope, handwritten by Jung. Scotch tape repair to split along lower fold, else near fine condition with bold handwriting. 

From Bollingen in St. Gallen, Switzerland, Jung writes to his mentee, the psychoanalyst Dr. Rivkah Scharf Kluger. Scharf had recently moved to Jerusalem, prompting Jung to perhaps take a subtle dig at the teachings of his former mentor, Sigmund Freud, by writing, "Not only did you travel to a different country, you also travelled into a different time, namely into a realm of psychology that you have outgrown."

Jung's lengthy letter, translated in full, "Dear Miss! / Your letter crossed with the one that I sent to the Givat-Brenner address. I hope you received it. Ascona is now behind me, and I am slowly recovering from all the attendant noise and drama. I am very glad to have heard from you. I have often wondered how you might be doing. I never, not even for a moment, doubted that taking this road was the correct decision for you, but I do not underestimate the complexities it involves either. Not only did you travel to a different country, you also travelled into a different time, namely into a realm of psychology that you have outgrown."

Jung then comments upon the recent dogma declaration by Pius XII of the Assumption of Mary:

"We are living in a highly historic moment, witnessing the coincidence of the Quaternity and synchronicity with the solemn declaration of the dogma of Mary's assumption into heaven, which deifies the feminine principle and thus transforms the Trinity into the Quaternity. In your present surroundings you now experience the same otherness that I have known for 40 years: one is aware of the unseen and is living within a spiritual future that is still concealed to the world of today.

Neumann's presentation at Eranos was the best by far. Scholem was very good as well, and so was Corbin. Everything else fell away by comparison. I stayed there from Monday until Saturday. Many people were there, and it was hot to boot, at least during the last days. Van der Leeuw was alarmingly bad.

About your dream! We know so little about what comes after life that interpreting these kinds of dreams is almost impossible. If we were at all permitted to apply psychology to it, we would have to say that, right from the beginning, the transition out of the body is perceived as a tremendous relief. It may well be the experience of a 'higher' state, thus the glorification. This is followed by a reckoning with the quintessence of the earthly experience, resp. its examination of the new experience, i.e., the new state of expanded consciousness. This might easily explain the suffering.

The events of the dream have an inverse counterpart within your present situation. Your conscious mind is in a state of heightened experience, and it must deal with a surrounding of limited consciousness, which is not easy for the unconscious mind - or - the desire to remain within you (= mother) either. Thus, presumably, your dream represents a synchronicity. Without a doubt, the dream points to the real mother and her transcendental state. / I wish you all the best and every success!"

An unpublished letter with exceptional content on religion, dream analysis of the afterlife, and a sense of "otherness" that Jung writes he had been living with for 40 years.

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