Sold – Carl Jung Provides Publication Standards to His Translator

Psychiatrist and philosopher, he founded analytical psychology. Typed Letter Signed, on his letterhead, in German, Zürich, November 29, 1960, to psychologist Felicia Froboese in Hamburg-Othmarschen, who translated his book “Psychology and Religion” into English. “…Mrs. Jaffé has shown me pictures, of which I have looked at a few, as far as I was technically able. The material you sent me appears to be some raw material, that is, an individual series of images which are of great practical importance for their author, but are uninteresting and even confusing for an outsider. These things have no intrinsic value, but become valuable only through being compared with many other pictures and with historic material and thus reveal their general meaning. Without this general meaning, however, they remain barren and unenlightenin…If you want to publish it, then it is your task to prepare a printable text that fulfils this requirement…”