ABSTRACT
Jung first read Goethe’s Faust when he was 15 years old. At least, this is what he told the Swiss author Max Rychner (1897-1965) on 28 February 1932, in response to a questionnaire about attitudes to the famous writer that Rychner had circulated on the centenary of Goethe’s death (L 1, 88). This basic, factual information undergoes considerable expansion in the chapter on Jung’s school years in Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
