ABSTRACT
In his 1936 letter to Marco Victoria, Keyserling assesses Ocampo’s importance as “the most telluric woman alive”. The chapters on Jung and Ocampo in Keyserling’s posthumously published memoir Reise durch die Zeit [Travel through Time, Vol. 2] function as his final takes on them. Keyserling reviews and evaluates his relationship to the pioneers of psychoanalysis, Freud, Adler, Groddeck, and Jung. As a philosopher and practitioner of a spiritual healing or wisdom tradition, he differentiates himself from psychoanalysts and characterologists. He gives his final assessment of Jung and acknowledges that he sometimes fell victim to his cruel invective and coldness. In the later chapters on Ocampo, he recounts the events leading to the failed meetings in Versailles and the subsequent tour of South America, his suffering, and the transformation he underwent as a result in writing South American Meditations. He praises Ocampo as telluric muse but describes himself as having failed to transform or heal spiritually her split psyche. 1
