Ocampo and Jung Meet, 1934

Ocampo’s memoir of her meeting with Jung was published in 1936 in La Nación (Buenos Aires) and later collected in her Domingos en Hyde Park. She first describes a disagreement with a Parisian magazine editor over her use of Jung’s word “introversion”. In the second half of this memory piece she describes her brief encounter with Jung. While Ocampo’s memoir was excerpted in C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, editors William McGuire and R. F. C. Hull cut her account, included here, of why Jung’s critical psychology was so important to her experience as a South American. ¹