ABSTRACT

This chapter talks about Jung and his relationship to Jews and Judaism. James Kirsch, a psychiatrist practising in Berlin, came from an Orthodox and entirely materialistic Jewish family, and he was looking for something meaningful and spiritual to enrich his life. After two years of Freudian analysis and a Jungian analysis in Berlin, he sought out Jung in 1928. Jung is still generally not accepted in the psychiatric and psychological field, and Jung's statements about 'Jewish psychology' in the 1930s still play a large part in his non-acceptance. The Swiss idea is to work with the enemy in order to find a compromise. Andrew Samuels has researched the history of writings on racial differences and has shown that Jung's writing style and phraseology is similar to some of the early racist writers in Germany.