ABSTRACT
Victoria Ocampo was a cultural icon both in her native Argentina and in Europe throughout the twentieth century. Born to one of the wealthiest Argentine families of the turn of the century, Ocampo used her power and her fortune to promote culture – literature, music, architecture, photography – on three continents, and she was instrumental in publishing in Spanish not only Jung and Keyserling but Aldous Huxley, Paul Valery, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Yourcenar, Albert Camus, Graham Greene, and many others. Writing her letter, Ocampo couldn’t know that her meeting with Jung, in October of that year at his Kusnacht house, would be brief and singular. Jung could deal somewhat duplicitously with Keyserling. On the one hand, when before his encounter with Ocampo Keyserling wrote to Jung describing his somatic sufferings, erotic problems, and dreams, Jung wrote back offering friendly, detailed interpretations and advice.
