ABSTRACT

In his highly successful popular account of Western intellectual history, Richard Tarnas writes that both Freud and Jung were ‘deeply influenced by the stream of German Romanticism that flowed from Goethe through Nietzsche’.1 In two previous studies I sought to examine the influence of Nietzsche,2 then Kant,3 on Jung, as a number of subsequent commentators have also tried to do.4 Over the last few years, the historical significance of Jung’s contribution to psychology in general is also becoming clearer.5