ABSTRACT
Writing was for Berdyaev a means of survival, an almost physical necessity. His philosophy may be seen as born out of a ‘necessity of adopting some kind of answer to the problem of psychic suffering’ (Jung 1956b: para. 1578) in the form of a Weltanschauung. Like Jung’s psychology, Berdyaev’s thought is the fruit of an individuation process, which transforms the psychic suffering of living through the historical crisis he found himself in into a creative response. This creative response is shaped by the spiritual atmosphere of the Russian origins of Berdyaev’s thought.
