ABSTRACT
From an early age Jung read widely in philosophy and theology. He ‘was fascinated by all forms of Platonism and neo-Platonism’.1 ‘Between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, he began to read both early Greek philosophy – Heraclitus, Pythagoras, and Empedocles, as well as Plato – and such medieval thinkers as Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart.’2
