The Jung-White Letters » (New Edition)

The Jung-White Letters charts fifteen years of correspondence between C. G. Jung and Victor White, an English Dominican priest and theologian. The dialogue between the two provides valuable insights into the development of Jung’s thought, and the relationship between psychology and religion.

Jung hoped that his correspondence with White would help him to reinterpret the classic Christian symbols and White sought Jung’s support of his project to integrate analytical psychology into Catholic theology. Although both Jung and White were committed to a productive collaboration, the letters trace a trajectory toward a crisis of misunderstanding and betrayal, culminating in a sharpening of disagreements after publication of Jung’s Answer to Job.

The letters are presented with great attention to authenticity, and Jung's previously published letters have been restored to their original style. The text is helpfully annotated throughout with historical, literary and personal references. A wealth of editorial material is also included to set the letters in context, including an authoritative memoir of Victor White.

Jung’s engagement with White was an essential dialogue that contributed importantly to his late writings, forcing him to refine his critique of classical theology. This volume will be of great interest to all Jungian analysts, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists and anyone interested in investigating the complex relationship between analytical psychology and religion.

List of illustrations     vii
Foreword   Murray Stein     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
Abbreviations     xvii
Introduction   Ann Conrad Lammers     xxi
The Letters
1945     1
1946     25
1947     63
1948     111
1949     133
1950     145
1951     165
1952     175
1953     211
1954     225
1955-58     251
1959-60     279
Jung's Letters about White     293
Victor White, a Memoir   Adrian Cunningham     307
Jung's "gnoseological note"     335
Some Notes on Psychologie und Alchemie   Victor White   Barbara Hannah   Marie-Louise von Franz     337
White's Footnote on Good and Evil     347
Jung on Job   Victor White     349
Editorial Note     357
List of Letters     363
Selected Bibliography     367
Index     373