ABSTRACT

Serious studies of Jung are only now beginning to appear and can be expected to become a fascinating world all their own. Years ago we already knew a lot about Americans who went to Vienna to study with Freud and his pupils, but little has yet appeared about the different sorts of Americans who were attracted to Jung’s thought and travelled to Zurich to get in touch with him. By and large Jung appealed to a higher social class than Freud did, and Jung’s admirers were less likely to include Jews. The whole tale of Jung and his contact with America remains an important if largely unwritten chapter in modern intellectual history.