8 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
David Cronenberg's 2011 film dramatizing the relationships between Freud, Jung, and Sabina Spielrein — based on John Kerr's book and Christopher Hampton's play — with Michael Fassbender as Jung, Keira Knightley as Spielrein, and Viggo Mortensen as Freud.
John Kerr's 1993 historical study of the relationships between Freud, Jung, and Sabina Spielrein — reconstructing from letters and documents the creation of psychoanalysis, the Jung-Freud rupture, and the role of Spielrein as both patient and intellectual contributor.
The collected correspondence between C.G. Jung and Nobel Prize physicist Wolfgang Pauli — edited by C.A. Meier — documenting their 25-year intellectual dialogue about synchronicity, the relationship between physics and psychology, and the unus mundus (one world).
C.G. Jung's 1958 study of flying saucer reports — Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies — arguing that UFO reports, whether or not they describe physical phenomena, express a psychological truth: the mandala symbol of wholeness projected onto the skies in a time of global anxiety.
South African writer, explorer, and Jungian who wrote about the Kalahari Bushmen and their spiritual world — befriended Jung and served as his representative in the English-speaking world — and was Prince Charles's mentor and godfather to Prince William.
Jung's autobiographical memoir — dictated to Aniela Jaffé and published posthumously — following his intellectual and spiritual development from childhood visions through his break with Freud, his 'confrontation with the unconscious,' and his mature work, ending with his reflections on death and eternity.
Jung's seven notebooks of active imagination from 1913–1932 — the raw source material from which the Red Book was elaborated — published in 2020 by Sonu Shamdasani, providing the unmediated record of Jung's inner dialogues.
Jung's illustrated manuscript — kept private during his lifetime and published only in 2009 — containing his active imaginations from 1914–1930, in which he descended into the unconscious, encountered archetypal figures (Philemon, Elijah, Salome), and derived the core concepts of analytical psychology from lived experience.