ABSTRACT
A considerable literature developed around the theme of death in both the Jungian and existentialist traditions, although the two traditions rarely touched. The existentialists argued that death structures time as finititude: it is as an ever-present limiting horizon of all possibilities without which any understanding of time evaporates into meaninglessness, and so does the experience of human meaning. For them, the confrontation with death as finitude was a necessary condition for authenticity. Jung had an equally strong appreciation of the significance of death, but it focused less on temporality, and it was more psychological and complex.
