Date | Events in Jung’s Career | World Events |
1933 | | |
January | Jung continues his English seminar on Christiana Morgan’s visions, on Wednesday mornings. | |
30 January | | Hitler is appointed Reich Chancellor in Germany by the president, Paul von Hindenburg. |
February | Jung lectures in Germany (Cologne and Essen) on “The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man” (CW 10). | |
27 February | | Reichstag fire in Berlin. The fire, possibly a false flag operation, was used as evidence by the Nazis that the Communists were plotting against the German government, and the event is seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. Many arrests of leftists. On 28 February, the most important basic rights of the Weimar republic were suspended. |
4 March | | “Self-dissolution” of the Austrian parliament, and authoritarian régime under Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß. |
5 March | | In the German federal elections, the National Socialists become the strongest party with 43.9 % of the votes. |
13 March to 6 April | Jung accepts the invitation of Hans Eduard Fierz to accompany him on a cruise on the Mediterranean, including a visit to Palestine. | |
18/19 March | Athens. Visits the Parthenon and the theatre of Dionysus. | |
23 March | | The German parliament passes the Ermächtigungsgesetz (Enabling Act), according to which the government is empowered to enact laws without the consent of the parliament or the president of the Reich—a self-disempowerment of the parliament. |
25–27 March | Jung and Fierz visit Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the Dead Sea. | |
28–31 March | Egypt, with visits to Gizeh and Luxor. | |
March to June | | Franklin D. Roosevelt starts the New Deal. |
1 April | | Nationwide boycott of Jewish shops in Germany. |
5 April | Via Corfu and Ragusa the General von Steuben lands in Venice, from where Jung and Fierz take the train to Zurich. | |
6 April | Ernst Kretschmer resigns from the presidency of the International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy (IGMSP) in protest against “political influences.” Jung, as vice-president, accepts the acting presidency and editorship of the society’s journal, the Zentralblatt für Psychotherapie. | |
7 April | | The German parliament passes a law that excludes Jews and dissidents from civil service. |
22 April | | “Non-Aryan” teachers are excluded from their professional organizations, “non-Aryan” and “Marxist” physicians lose their accreditation with the national health insurance. |
26 April | | Formation of the Gestapo. |
1–10 May | | Ban on trade unions in Germany. |
10 May | | Public burning of books in Berlin and other cities, including those of Freud. |
14 May | The Berliner Börsen-Zeitung publishes “Against psychoanalysis,” describing Jung as the reformer of psychotherapy. | |
22 May | | Sándor Ferenczi dies in Budapest. |
27 May/ 1 June | | The German government imposes the so-called Thousand Mark Ban, an economic sanction against Austria. German citizens had to pay a fee of 1000 Reichsmark (or the equivalent of about $5,000 in 2015) to enter Austria. |
21 June | Jung accepts the presidency of the IGMSP. | |
26 June | Interview with Jung on Radio Berlin, conducted by Adolf Weizsäcker. | |
26 June– 1 July | Jung gives the “Berlin Seminar,” opened by a lecture by Heinrich Zimmer on 25 June. | |
14 July | | “Law for the prevention of hereditarily diseased offspring” in Germany, which allows the compulsory sterilization of any citizen with alleged hereditary diseases. |
14 July | | In Germany, all parties with the exception of the NSDAP are banned or dissolve themselves. |
August | Jung’s first attendance at the Eranos meeting in Ascona, giving a talk on “On the Empirical Knowledge of the Individuation Process” (retitled, CW 9/1). | |
15 September | Foundation of a new German chapter of the IGMSP, whose statutes demand unconditional loyalty to Hitler. Matthias H. Göring, a cousin of Hermann Göring, is named its president. | |
22 September | | Law on the “Reich chamber of culture” in Germany, enforced conformity [Gleichschaltung] of culture in general, tantamount to an occupational ban on Jews and artists who produce “degenerate” art. |
7/8 October | Meeting of the Swiss Academy of Medical Science at Prangins. Jung presents a contribution on hallucination (CW 618). | |
20 October | Jung’s first lecture on “Modern Psychology” at ETH. | |
5 December | | Repeal of Prohibition in the United States with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment. |
10 December | | Nobel Prize in Physics to Erwin Schrödinger and Paul A. M. Dirac “for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.” |
December | Jung publishes an editorial in the Zentralblatt of the IGMSP, in which he contrasts “Germanic” with “Jewish” psychology (CW 10). The same issue contains a manifesto of Nazi principles by Matthias Göring that, be it by oversight or on purpose, also appears in the international, not only German, edition, against Jung’s wishes. Jung threatens to resign from the presidency, but ultimately stays on. | |
Other Publications in 1933: “Crime and Soul,” CW 18 “On Psychology,” revised version in CW 8 “Brother Klaus,” CW 11 Foreword to Esther Harding, The Way of All Women, CW 18 Review of Gustav Richard Heyer Der Organismus der Seele, CW 18 |
1934 | | |
20 January | | German “Work Order Act” and introduction of the “Führer principle” in economy. |
12–16 February | | Civil war in Austria, resulting in a ban of all social-democratic parties and organizations, mass arrests, and summary executions. |
23 February | Jung’s last lecture at ETH in the winter semester of 1933/34. | |
27 February | Gustav Bally publishes a letter to the editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (“Psychotherapy of German Origin?”), in which he strongly criticizes Jung for his alleged Nazi leanings and anti-Semitic views. | |
Spring | Beginning of Jung’s serious and detailed study of alchemy, assisted by Marie-Louise von Franz. | |
13–14 March | Jung publishes a rejoinder to Bally in the NZZ (“Contemporary Events”, CW 10). | |
16 March | Publication of B. Cohen, “Is C. G. Jung ‘Conformed’?” in Israelitisches Wochenblatt für die Schweiz. | |
21 March | Jung’s last seminar on Christiana Morgan’s visions. The participants opt for continuing the English Wednesday morning seminars with one on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. | |
March/April | C. G. Jung, The Reality of the Soul: Applications and Advances of Modern Psychology; with contributions from Hugo Rosenthal, Emma Jung, and W. M. Kranefeldt. | |
April | Jung publishes “Soul and Death” (CW 8). | |
April | Interview with Jung, “Does the World Stand on the Verge of Spiritual Rebirth?” (Hearst’s International-Cosmopolitan, New York). | |
ca. April | Jung publishes “On the Present Position of Psychotherapy” in the Zentralblatt (CW 10). | |
20 April | Jung’s first ETH lecture in the summer semester. | |
2 May | Jung starts the English seminar on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra (until 15 February 1939). | |
5 May | Jung’s inaugural lecture at ETH, “A General Review of Complex Theory” (CW 8). | |
10–13 May | Jung presides at the Seventh Congress for Psychotherapy in Bad Nauheim, Germany, and repeats his talk on the complex theory. Foundation of an international umbrella society for the IGMSP, organized in national groups that are free to make their own regulations. On Jung’s proposition statutes are passed that (1) provide that no single national society can muster more than 40 % of the votes, and (2) allow that individuals (that is, Jews, who are banned from the German society) can join the International Society as “individual members.” Jung is confirmed as president and as editor of the Zentralblatt. | |
29 May | James Kirsch, “The Jewish Question in Psychotherapy: A Few Remarks on an Essay by C. G. Jung,” in the Jüdische Rundschau. | |
31 May | | The “Barmen Declaration,” mainly instigated by Karl Barth, openly repudiates the Nazi ideology. It becomes one of the founding documents of the Confessing Church, the spiritual resistance against National Socialism. |
15 June | Erich Neumann, letter to the Jüdische Rundschau regarding Kirsch’s “The Jewish Question in Psychotherapy.” | |
30 June/ 1 July | | The so-called Röhm putsch. SA leader Ernst Röhm, other high-ranking SA members, and alleged political opponents are executed on Hitler’s direct orders, among them Röhm’s personal physician Karl-Günther Heimsoth, a longtime member of the IGMSP and a personal acquaintance of Jung. |
13 July | Jung’s last ETH lecture in the summer semester. | |
25 July | | Failed putsch attempt by the Nazis in Austria, in which the Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß is murdered. |
29 July | | New government in Austria under chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg who tries to control the Nazi movement by his own authoritarian, right-wing regime. |
2 August | | Death of Reich president Paul von Hindenburg. Hitler assumes chancellorship and presidency in personal union, as well as supreme command of the Wehrmacht. |
3 August | Gerhard Adler, “Is Jung an Antisemite?”, in the Jüdische Rundschau. | |
August | Eranos meeting in Ascona. Jung talks on “The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious” (CW 9/1). | |
1–7 October | Jung gives a seminar at the Société de Psychologie in Basle. | |
26 October | First ETH lecture of the winter semester 1934/35. | |
Other publications in 1934: With M. H. Göring, “Geheimrat Sommer on his 70th Birthday,” Zentralblatt VII Circular letter, Zentralblatt, CW 10 Addendum to “Zeitgenössisches,” CW 10 Foreword to Carl Ludwig Schleich, Die Wunder der Seele, CW 18 Foreword to Gerhard Adler, Entdeckung der Seele, CW 18 Review of Hermann Keyserling, La Révolution Mondiale, CW 10 |
1935 | | |
| Jung becomes titular professor at ETH. | |
| Jung completes his tower at Bollingen, by adding a courtyard and a loggia. | |
19 January | Jung accepts an invitation to lecture in Holland. | |
22 January | Foundation of the Swiss chapter of the IGMSP. | |
24 February | | Swiss extend the period of military training. |
1 March | | Saarland reunion with Germany, marking the beginning of German expansion under the National Socialists. |
8 March | Final ETH lecture of the winter semester 1934/35. | |
16 March | | The German government officially denounces its future adherence to the disarmament clauses of the Versailles Treaty. |
26 March | | Switzerland bans slanderous criticisms of state institutions in the press. |
27–30 March | Eighth Congress of the IGMSP in Bad Nauheim (CW 10). | |
2 May | | Franco-Russian Alliance. |
3 May | First ETH lecture of the Summer semester 1935. | |
May | Jung attends and lectures at an IGMSP symposium on Psychotherapy in Switzerland. | |
5 June | | The Swiss government introduces an extensive armament expansion program. |
11 June | | The disarmament conference in Geneva ends in failure. |
28 June | Publication of Jung’s contribution at the May IGMSP symposium, “What Is Psychotherapy?”, in the Schweizerische Ärztezeitung für Standesfragen (CW 16). | |
12 July | Jung’s last ETH lecture in the summer semester. | |
August | Eranos lecture on “Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process” (CW 9/1). | |
15 September | | Passing of the so-called Nuremberg Laws in Germany. These laws deprive Jews (defined as all those one-quarter Jewish or more) and other non-“Aryans” of German citizenship, and prohibit sexual relations and marriages between Germans and Jews. |
30 September–4 October | Jung gives five lectures at the Institute of Medical Psychology in London, to an audience of around one hundred (CW 18). | |
October | | Conclusion of the “Long March” in China. |
2 October | Publication of Jung’s “The Psychology of Dying” (a shortened version of “Soul and Death”) in the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten (CW 8). | |
2–3 October | | Italian invasion of Ethiopia. |
25 October | First ETH lecture of the Winter semester 1935/36. | |
6 October | Interview with Jung, “Man’s immortal mind,” The Observer. | |
8 November | | Switzerland tightens banking secrecy laws (leading to the numbered bank accounts). |
December | | Nobel Peace Prize for leftist German journalist and editor Carl von Ossietzky. Hitler forbids Germans to accept Nobel Prizes. |
15 October | The Dutch national group of the IGMSP retracts their invitation to host its next international congress, because of the events in Nazi Germany. In his answer, Jung states that this “compromises the ultimate purpose of our international association,” and declares that he will resign as its president, which he does not carry through, however. | |
Other publications in 1935: The Relations between the I and the Unconscious, 7th edition, CW 7 Introduction and psychological commentary on the The Tibetan Book of the Dead, CW 11 “Votum C.G. Jung”, CW 10 “Editorial” (Zentralblatt VIII), CW 10 “Editorial Note” (Zentralblatt VIII), CW 10 “Fundamentals of Practical Psychotherapy”, CW 16 Foreword to Olga von Koenig-Fachsenfeld, Wandlungen des Traumproblems von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart, CW 18 Foreword to Rose Mehlich, J. H. Fichtes Seelenlehre und ihre Beziehung zur Gegenwart, CW 18 |
1936 | | |
February | “Yoga and the West” (CW 11). | |
February | “Psychological Typology” (CW 6). | |
27 February | | Death of Iwan Pawlow. |
Spring | Formation of the Analytical Psychology Club in New York City. | |
March | Jung publishes “Wotan” in the Neue Schweizer Rundschau (CW 10). | |
6 March | Final ETH lecture of the winter semester 1935/36. | |
7 March | | German military forces enter the Rhineland, violating the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties. This remilitarization changes the balance of power in Europe from France towards Germany. |
28 March | | The property of the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, and all its stock of books and journals, are confiscated. |
May | | Foundation of the Deutsches Institut für psychologische Forschung und Psychotherapie in Berlin, headed by M. H. Göring (“Göring Institute”), with working groups of Jungian, Adlerian, and Freudian orientation. Psychoanalysis was tolerated, but on the condition that its terminology be altered. |
May | “Concerning the Archetypes, With Special Consideration of the Anima Concept,” in the Zentralblatt (CW 9/1). | |
1 May | First ETH lecture of the summer semester 1936. | |
July | | Beginning of Spanish civil war. |
10 July | Final ETH lecture of the summer semester 1936. | |
19 July | Jung and Göring attend a meeting of psychotherapists in Basel, with representatives of different depth-psychological schools (among others, Ernest Jones for the International Psycho-Analytical Association). | |
August | Eranos meeting; Jung speaks on “Representations of Redemption in Alchemy” (CW 12). | |
1–16 August | | Summer Olympics in Berlin. Germans who are Jewish or Roma are virtually barred from participating. |
21–30 August | Jung travels on board the Georgic from Le Havre to New York City. Upon arrival in New York, he releases a “Press Communiqué on Visiting the United States,” setting forth his political—or, as he insisted, his nonpolitical—position. | |
September | Jung lectures at the Harvard Tercentenary Conference on Arts and Sciences, on “Psychological Factors Determining Human Behavior” (CW 8), and receives an honorary degree. His invitation had given rise to controversy. | |
12–15 September | Jung is guest of the Anglican bishop James De Wolf Perry in Providence, Rhode Island, addresses the organization “The American Way,” and then leaves for Milton, Mass., where he is guest of G. Stanley Cobb. | |
ca. 19 September | Jung starts a seminar on Bailey Island, based on Wolfgang Pauli’s dreams. | |
2 October | Jung gives a public lecture at the Plaza Hotel in NYC. The talk is privately published by the New York Analytical Psychology Club under the title, “The Concept of the Collective Unconscious.” (CW 9/1). | |
3 October | Jung leaves New York City. | |
4 October | Interview with Jung, “Roosevelt ‘Great,’ Is Jung’s Analysis,” New York Times (later published under the title, “The 2,000,000-year-old-man”). | |
14 October | Jung lectures at the Institute of Medical Psychology, London, on “Psychology and National Problems” (CW 18). | |
15 October | Interview with Jung, “Why the World Is in a Mess. Dr. Jung Tells Us how Nature Is Changing Modern Woman,” Daily Sketch. | |
18 October | Interview with Jung, “The Psychology Of Dictatorship,” The Observer. | |
19 October | Jung lectures before the Abernethian Society, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, on the concept of the collective unconscious (CW 9/1). | |
25 October | | Secret peace treaty between Germany and Italy. |
27 October | Jung begins his seminars at ETH on children’s dreams and old books on dream interpretation. | |
3 November | | Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected for his second term. |
25 November | | Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and the Empire of Japan, directed against the Third (Communist) International. |
10 December | | Abdication of Edward VIII in England. |
Other publications in 1936: Review of Gustav Richard Heyer, Praktische Seelenheilkunde, CW 18 |
1937 | | |
3–5 January | Jung participates in the workshop of the Köngener Kreis (1–6 January) in Königsfeld (Black Forest, Germany), on “Grundfragen der Seelenkunde und Seelenführung” [Fundamental Questions of the Study and Guidance of the Soul]. | |
30 January | | Hitler formally withdraws Germany from the Versailles Treaty. This includes Germany no longer making reparation payments. He demands a return of Germany’s colonies. |
23 April 1937 | After a break in the winter semester Jung’s ETH lectures commence. | |
26 April | | Germany and Italy are allied with Franco and the fascists in Spain. German and Italian airplanes bomb the city of Guernica, killing more than 1,600. |
23 May | | Death of John D. Rockefeller. |
28 May | | Death of Alfred Adler in Aberdeen, Scotland. |
9 July | Final ETH lecture of the summer semester 1937. | |
19 July | | The NS exhibition on “Degenerate art” opens at the Institute of Archaeology, Munich. |
August | Eranos Lecture on “The Visions of Zosimos” (CW 13). | |
2–4 October | Ninth International Medical Congress for Psychotherapy in Copenhagen, under the presidency of Jung (CW 10). | |
October | Jung is invited to Yale University to deliver the fifteenth series of “Lectures on Religion in the Light of Science and Philosophy” under the auspices of the Dwight Harrington Terry Foundation (published as “Psychology and Religion,” CW 11). | |
| Dream Seminar (continuation from the Bailey Island seminars), Analytical Psychology Club, New York. | |
December | Jung is invited by the British Government to take part in the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Indian Science Congress Association at the University of Calcutta. He is accompanied by Harold Fowler McCormick Jr. (1898–1973) and travels through India for three months. | |
13 December | | Nanjing falls to the Japanese. In the six weeks to follow, the Japanese troops commit war crimes against the civilian population known as the Nanjing Massacre. |
17 December | Arrival in Bombay by P & O Cathay. | |
19 December | Jung reaches Hyderabad, where he is bestowed an Honorary Doctor Degree by the University Osmania in Hyderabad; night train to Aurangabad. | |
20 December | Aurangabad: visits the Kailash Temple at Ellora, and Daulatabad. | |
21 December | Visits the caves at Ajanta. | |
22 December | Sanchi, Bhopal, visits the Great Stupa. | |
23 December | Taj Mahal, Agra. | |
27 December | Benares; Jung visits Sarnath. | |
28 December | Jung is awarded the D. Litt. (Doctor of Letters) Honoris Causa by the Benares Hindu University; presentation at the Philosophy Department: “Fundamental Conceptions Of Analytical Psychology”; guest of Swiss interpreter of Indian Art Alice Boner; visits the Vishvanatha Śiva Temple. | |
29 December | Calcutta. | |
31 December | Jung travels to Darjeeling. | |
Other publications in 1937: “On the Psychological Diagnosis of Facts: The Fact Experiment in the Näf Court Case,” CW 2 |
1938 | | |
1 January | Three-hour conversation with Rimpotche Lingdam Gomchen at the Bhutia Busty monastery. | |
3 January | Opening of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Indian Science Congress Association at the University of Calcutta. | |
| Jung is treated in the hospital in Calcutta. | |
7 January | Jung is awarded (in absentia) the degree of Doctor of Law (Honoris Causa) by the University of Calcutta. | |
10 January | Lecture at the College of Science, University of Calcutta: “Archetypes of the collective unconscious.” | |
11 January | Lecture at the Ashutosh College, University of Calcutta: “The Conceptions of Analytical Psychology.” | |
13 January | Visits the Temple of Konark (“Black Pagoda”). | |
21 January | Visits the Chennakesava Temple (also called the Kesava temple) and the temple of Somanathapur (Mysore). | |
26 January | Jung in Trivandrum; lecture at the University of Travancore: “The Collective Unconscious.” | |
27 January | University of Travancore: “Historical Developments of the Idea of the Unconscious.” | |
28 January | Ferry to Ceylon. | |
29 January | Colombo. | |
30 January | Train to Kandy. | |
1 February | Return to Colombo. | |
2 February | Embarks on the S.S. Korfu to return to Europe. | |
12 March | | Annexation of Austria by Nazi-Germany. |
27 April | | Edmund Husserl, the founding philosopher of phenomenology, dies in Freiburg, Germany. |
May | | The League of Nations acknowledges the neutral status of Switzerland. |
29 April | After his return from India, Jung’s ETH lecture series recommences. | |
4 June | | Sigmund Freud leaves Vienna; after a stop in Paris he arrives in London two days later. |
8 July | Final ETH lecture of the summer semester 1938. | |
29 July–2 August | Tenth International Medical Congress for Psychotherapy in Balliol College, Oxford, under the presidency of Jung; honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford. “Presidential Address” (CW 10). | |
August | Eranos Lecture on “Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype” (CW 9/1). | |
29 September | | Munich Pact permits Nazi Germany the immediate occupation of the Sudentenland. Agreement between Switzerland and Germany concerning the stamping of German Jewish passports with “J.” |
28 October | First ETH lecture of the winter semester 1938/39. | |
October | Jung’s ETH seminar series on the psychological interpretation of children’s dreams commences in the winter term of 1938/39. | |
9 November | | A Swiss theology student, Maurice Bauvaud, fails to assassinate Hitler at a Nazi parade in Munich, and is guillotined. |
9/10 November | | Pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany (“Crystal Night”). |
23 November | Jung gives his witness statement at the retrial of the murder case of Hans Näf. | |
Other publications in 1938: With Richard Wilhelm, The Secret of the Golden Flower, 2nd edition, CW 13 “On the Rosarium Philosophorum”, CW 18 Foreword to Gertrud Gilli, Der dunkle Bruder, CW 18 |
1939 | | |
January 1939 | “Diagnosing the dictators,” interview with H. L. Knickerbocker, Hearst’s International-Cosmopolitan. | |
15 February | The last of Jung’s seminars on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, and hence of Jung’s regular English-language seminars. | |
3 March | Final ETH lecture of the winter semester 1938/39. | |
28 March | | Madrid surrenders to the Nationalists; Franco declares victory on 1 April. |
April | Visits the west country in England in connection with Emma Jung’s Grail research. | |
4 April | Lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, “On the Psychogenesis of Schizophrenia” (CW 3). | |
5 April | Lecture at the Guild of Pastoral Psychology, London, on “The Symbolic Life.” | |
28 April | First ETH lecture of the summer semester 1939. | |
May | Surendranath Dasgupta lectures on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras in the Psychology Club Zurich. Interview with Howard Philp, “Jung Diagnoses the Dictators,” Psychologist. | |
July | At a meeting of delegates of the International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy Jung offers his resignation. | |
7 July | Final lecture of the summer semester 1939. | |
August | Eranos Lecture on “Concerning Rebirth” (CW 9/1). | |
1 September | | Nazi-German troops invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany two days later; begin of World War II. Switzerland proclaims neutrality. |
23 September | | Sigmund Freud dies in London at the age of 83. |
| Moves his family for safety to Saanen in the Bernese Oberland. | |
1 October | Jung’s obituary of Freud is published in the Sonntagsblatt der Basler Nachrichten (CW 15). | |
3 October | First ETH lecture of the winter semester 1939/40. | |
October | Jung’s ETH seminar series on the psychological interpretation of children’s dreams commences in the winter term 1939/40. | |
Other publications in 1939: “Consciousness, Unconscious and Individuation,” CW 9/1 “The Dreamlike World of India” and “What India Can Teach Us,” CW 10 Foreword to Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki’s Introduction to Zen-Buddhism, CW 10 |
1940 | | |
8 March | Final ETH lecture of the winter semester 1939/40. | |
9 April | | German troops invade Norway and Denmark. |
10 May | | German invasion of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. |
12 May | | France is invaded by Germany. |
14 June | | German troops occupy Paris. |
20 June | In a letter to Matthias Göring, Jung offers his resignation of the presidency of the International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy. | |
12 July | Jung sends his final letter of resignation to M. Göring. | |
19 July | | Hermann Göring is appointed Reichsmarschall. |
August | Eranos lecture on “A psychological approach to the dogma of the trinity” (CW 11). | |
7 September (–21 May 1941) | | German aerial raids against London (“the Blitz”). |
29 October | Jung’s ETH seminar series on children’s dreams commences in the winter semester 1940/41. | |
8 November | First ETH lecture of the winter semester 1940/41. | |
Other publications in 1940: Foreword to Jolande Jacobi, Die Psychologie von C. G. Jung, CW 18 |
1941 | | |
13 January | | Death of James Joyce in Zurich. |
28 February | Final lecture of the winter semester 1940/41. | |
2 May | First ETH lecture of the summer semester 1941. | |
11 July | Jung’s final ETH lecture. | |
August | Eranos lecture on “Transformation Symbolism in the Mass” (CW 11). | |
7 September | Presents a lecture on “Paracelsus as a Doctor” to the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine in Basel (CW 15). | |
5 October | Presents a lecture on “Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon” in Einsiedeln, on the 400th anniversary of the death of Paracelsus (CW 13). | |
Other publications in 1941: Essays on a Science of Mythology. The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis, together with Karl Kerényi, CW 9/1 “Return to the Simple Life,” CW 18 |