ABSTRACT
Jung journey to India, in 1938, was not taken on his own initiative. It arose out of an invitation from the British Government of India to take part in the celebrations connected with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the University of Calcutta. India gave Jung his first direct experience of an alien, highly differentiated culture. In India Jung was principally concerned with the question of the psychological nature of evil. India honoured Jung with three doctorates, from Allahabad, Benares and Calcutta – representatives of Islam, of Hinduism, and of British-Indian medicine and science. Imperiously, the dream wiped away all the intense impressions of India and swept Jung back to the too-long-neglected concerns of the Occident, which had formerly been expressed in the quest for the Holy Grail as well as in the search for the philosophers’ stone.
