Archive of Carl Jung Lecture Notes including Dream Analysis, Interpretation of Visions, Modern Psychology, The Process of Individuation, Dream Symbols.
Zurich; New York; et al: Analytical Psychology Club of New York, et al, 1930-1961.
Large archive of notes from seminars taught by Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, between 1930 and 1945. From the collection of one of his pupils. Together with publications by several other Jungian psychoanalysts, including Kristine Mann and Esther Harding. Jung gave most of these lectures in German in Switzerland, where they were recorded and typed by several students and checked over by Jung before being translated into English. The New York City and Bailey Island transcripts are in the original English. They were multigraphed for limited distribution to seminar members only and could not be loaned or quoted. The almost verbatim transcripts reveal the development of Jung’s theories and his teaching style; they include interjections from students, questions and responses, and bursts of laughter. Most have never been published.
The archive, overall Very Good+, contains:
- 23 volumes of multigraphed seminar transcripts from Jung’s Zurich lectures, translated into English. Printed recto only, occasionally illustrated with black and white illustrations, some tipped in. Bound in serviceable marble-printed paper-covered boards over black or dark green spine cloth lettered in gilt. Light wear to covers, dust-soiling to upper edges of textblocks, and light soiling to endpapers. Bindings of several volumes shaken, contents moderately toned. Occasional pencil inscriptions and some contemporary ephemera laid in. Includes the following:
- Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process, 2 volumes. Multigraphed and printed verso and recto. Each bound in plain green paper-covered boards over green spine cloth. Light wear to covers, dust-soiling to upper edges of textblocks, moderate toning to contents. Mimeographed test questions laid in.
- 5 publications by the Analytical Psychology Club of New York, multigraphed and printed recto only. Staple bound in pink wrappers. Light wear and toning, penciled number to each front cover, tears and staining to front cover of Initiation Rites.
- On the Psychology of the Spirit: Two Lectures Given at Ascona, Switzerland, August 1945, by C.G. Jung. Copyright 1948 by the Analytical Psychology Club of New York. 43 pp. Bound in blue wrappers over black spine cloth. Light wear, creasing, and staining to covers. Moderate toning to contents.
- The Beginning of Depth Psychology from Mesmer to Freud (1780-1900) by Liliane Frey. No date; circa 1935. 68 pp., printed recto only. Bound in pale green paper wraps over black spine cloth. Light wear and soiling to covers, light toning to contents.
- Introduction to General Clinical Psychopathy by K.W. Bash. 1961; based on lectures delivered in Cairo in 1959. V, 107 pp. Printed recto only. Bound in publisher's pale orange wraps over brown spine cloth. Very light wear and soiling to covers, light toning to contents.
- The Figure of Satan in the Old Testament, by Dr. Riwkah Schaerf. 60 pp., printed recto only. Bound in brown paper-covered boards over brown spine cloth lettered in gilt. Light wear to covers, light toning to covers and contents. Notes on lectures delivered in English in 1946, extracted from Schaerf's unpublished thesis. Zurich, 1947. In original mailer, sent from Switzerland to Mrs. Richard S. Childs in New York City.
- 2 prong bound in Accopress binders containing various notes and papers. Moderate wear and soiling to covers, one front cover detached. Moderate toning and edgewear to contents, some penciled corrections and inscriptions, ephemera laid in.
- In Memoriam: Kristine Mann 1873-1945. Staple bound pamphlet, 28 pp.
These papers are from the collection of Grace Childs (referred to as Mrs. Richard S. Childs in newspapers of the time), a prominent New York society woman and social reformer. She graduated from the School of Social Work in 1913 and joined the Red Cross during the First World War. Childs served as Treasurer of the Women’s Trade Union League during the following two decades, famously joining laundry workers on the picket line, and did volunteer psychiatric work for the Selective Service system during the Second World War. That last speaks to Childs’ growing interest in psychology: she served as President of the Analytical Psychology Club of New York from 1949 to 1952 and was active in the club from its infancy. In the 1945 In Memoriam included in this archive, she writes of the effect Dr. Kristine Mann had on her the first time she saw the doctor speak:
“I was not one of those fortunate persons who knew Dr. Mann well, but I remember the deep impression her face made upon me the first time I saw her. I was sure I had seen her before – her face haunted me. Sometime later I realized her face resembled strikingly one of the Sybils in the ceiling frescoes of ‘The Creation’ in the Vatican, by Michael Angelo – frescoes I had studied long ago. The night she read her paper on ‘The Shadow of Death’ a new vista opened for me. I realized for the first time what a creative old age might mean.”
Kristine Mann is a key figure in the development of Jungian psychotherapy. She is the anonymous woman described in Jung’s seminal essay “A study in the process of individuation,” an American lady who “had varied interests, was extremely cultured, and possessed a lively turn of mind.” A graduate of Smith College, Mann taught English for years before deciding to switch to medicine, earning a degree from Cornell Medical School in 1913. Like Grace Childs, Mann was drawn to psychology in middle age and traveled to Zurich in 1921 to study under Jung. She returned every few years thereafter, and his interpretation of her paintings was the basis for a new theory of psychological development.
Kristine Mann, Eleanor Bertine, and Esther Harding formed a powerful trio of pioneering Jungian psychoanalysts in the United States. They cofounded the Analytical Psychology Club of New York in 1936 and invited Jung to give lectures in New York in September 1936 and at Bailey Island in Maine October 1937, the notes from which are included in this archive. The Bailey Island seminar marked Jung’s last visit to the United States. When Mann was dying of cancer in 1945, Jung wrote to her:
“When you can give up the crazy will to live and when you seemingly fall into a bottomless mist, then the truly real life begins with everything which you were meant to be and never reached.”
Mann left her books and papers to the Analytical Psychology Club, which named its nascent library – now the largest such in the country – in her honor. This treasure trove could be the cornerstone of a new library.- Dream Analysis, Volumes I-4. (Volume 5 is included in a binder in this archive.) Notes on the Seminar in Analytical Psychology given by Jung in Zurich 1928-1930. New Edition copyright 1938.
- Interpretation of Visions, Volumes 2-11 (Volume 1 is included in a binder in this archive). Notes on the Seminar in Analytical Psychology given by Jung in Zurich 1931-1934. New edition copyright 1939.
- Psychological Analysis of Nietzsche's Zarathustra, Volume 10 only. Zurich, 1938-1939.
- Psychological Interpretation of Children's Dreams. Notes on Lectures given at the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule. Zurich, 1938-39.
- Modern Psychology, 2 Volumes. Notes on Lectures given at the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule. Zurich, 1933-35.
- The Process of Individuation. Notes on Lectures given at the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule. Zurich, 1938-39.
- The Process of Individuation. Alchemy. 2 Volumes. Notes on Lectures given at the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule. Zurich, 1940-41.
- The Kundalini Yoga. Notes on the Seminar given by Professor J.W. Hauer with psychological commentary by Jung. Zurich, 1932. New edition copyright 1940.
- Index to Notes of the English Seminars from 1925 to Winter 1934.- Volume I: Seminar Held at Bailey Island, Maine September 20 through 25, 1936. 214 pp.
- Volume II: Seminar Held in New York City October 16, 17, 18, 25, and 26, 1937.- Initiation Rites by Joseph L. Henderson, 1939. 16 pp.
- The Psychological Aspects of the War by Eleanor Bertine, Helen G. Henley, M. Esther Harding, Joseph L. Henderson, Hildegard Nagel, and Walter Oertly. 1940. 49 pp.
- The Evolution of Woman and Her Responsibility to the World of Today by Beatrice M. Hinkle. 1940. 16 pp.
- Early Concepts of Jahweh by Jane Abbott Pratt. 1939. 22, 3 pp.
- The Shadow of Death by Kristine Mann. 1940. 23 pp.- First binder: Interpretation of Visions. Vol. I. Notes on the Seminar in Analytical Psychology Given by Dr. C.G. Jung. New Edition 1939. 89 pp. Followed by 81 typed carbon copy pages, carbon copies of essays dated April and May 1948 laid in, 28 pages typed on legal-sized writing paper ("The Mother Archetype and Its Functioning in Life, by M. Esther Harding. Papers of the Analytical Psychology Club of NYC 1939."), 5 page multigraphed essay "Beauty and the Beast" by Frieda H. Stern, and other extracts, notes, and essays.
- Second binder: Multigraphed notes from Jung's Zurich lectures. Dream Analyses Vol IV: Notes on the Seminar in Alanytical [sic] Psychology Given by Dr. C.G. Jung. New Edition 1938. 62 pp. Dream Analyses Vol V, New Edition copyright 1939. 71 pp. Psychological Analysis of Nietzsche's Zarathustra. Part 8. Spring 1937. 91 pp.Part 9 (penciled date of 10 Dec 1942), 65 pp. Part 10, 108 pp. Four newspaper clippings relating to mythology and symbolism in the wartime air force (gremlins) laid in.
Price: $18,000