ABSTRACT
Jung and Keyserling had exchanged letters from time to time before Keyserling and Ocampo met. Though Jung had previously helpfully and sincerely interpreted a dream or symptom of Keyserling’s from as early as 1923, he expressly kept Keyserling and his School of Wisdom at arm’s length. In 1929, Keyserling writes to Jung about his encounter with Ocampo and later about a dream in which she appears. Jung suggests he reframe the encounter with Ocampo, re-imagine his travels to South America, and rewrite the manuscript of South American Meditations. Keyserling revises, and the book is published in 1932 in German, with faint careful praise from Jung and superlative endorsements from Thomas Mann, Jakob Wasserman, and Max Rychner.
