ABSTRACT
Niels Bohr, the famous Danish physicist, owned a wooden cottage in the country where he liked to invite his physics colleagues for long and deep discussions. S. Ferenczi's interest in both physics and metaphysics—and their relationship to the psyche—is less well known, yet he preceded C. G. Jung. In fact, it is quite likely that Jung's interest in such matters was ignited, or at least had its fires fanned, by Ferenczi. In 1899, when he was only twenty-six, Ferenczi published a paper entitled "Spiritism". There, he first expressed his views on the relationship between physics, metaphysics, and what would later be called psychoanalysis. Searching for links between the psyche, the material world, and metaphysics is not new—in fact, it is an ancient pursuit. The links between psychoanalysis and mysticism in general (and Kabbalah in particular) have been written about by D. Bakan, by J. H. Berke, and by Jung himself in many works.
