ABSTRACT
In February 1944, in a Europe wracked with war, Jung suffered a more personal cataclysm. The 68-year-old Jung slipped while walking in the snow and broke his foot. He was hospitalized and, 10 days later, suffered a severe heart attack. Near death and delirious for weeks, his doctors and family were not sure he would even survive (Hayman, 1999, p. 379–380; >Jung, 1983a, p. 320). Jung was hospitalized or convalescing after this illness for more than a year. Later, in a letter to a terminally ill colleague, he was to refer to this experience this way: “As you know, the angel of death has struck me down too and almost succeeded in wiping me off the slate” (letter to K. Mann, 1 February 1945).
