Beschreibung:

JUNG, Carl (1875 - 1961). Series of twelve letters, comprising two autograph letters signed and ten letters signed ('C.G. Jung'), to Dr J.H. van der Hoop, Küsnacht and Zürich, 5 March 1928-31 December 1949, together 9½ pages, 4to, in autograph, and 2 pages, oblong 4to, and 10 pages, 4to, typescript (one typed letter split at vertical fold and repaired on verso with tape); with retained copies of five letters from van der Hoop to Freud, a typescript signed by Emma Jung, and some related manuscripts and copies.
JUNG, Carl (1875 - 1961). Series of twelve letters, comprising two autograph letters signed and ten letters signed ('C.G. Jung'), to Dr J.H. van der Hoop, Küsnacht and Zürich, 5 March 1928-31 December 1949, together 9½ pages, 4to, in autograph, and 2 pages, oblong 4to, and 10 pages, 4to, typescript (one typed letter split at vertical fold and repaired on verso with tape); with retained copies of five letters from van der Hoop to Freud, a typescript signed by Emma Jung, and some related manuscripts and copies. INSTINCT AND FEELING; AND HIS OPPOSITION TO THE FREUDIANS. The correspondence opens with a reaction to a lecture of van der Hoop's, in which Jung questions his equation of Instinct with Feeling ('warum Sie den Instinct mit der Empfindung gleichsetzen'): this could only work if van der Hoop uses different definitions of these terms, as of Intuition, from Jung, but this cannot be, as he is basing his work on Jung's system of types (Jung provides triangular diagrams to demonstrate his definitions of these terms, and van der Hoop's). The second autograph letter continues the discussion of these terms at considerable length, questioning van der Hoop's following of Dr Maeder, and expressing his opposition to any attempt to equate the psychology of Types with a theological doctrine. The earliest typed letters, between 1935 and 1937, consider public matters relating to analytic psychology, especially for international congresses of the Gesellschaft für Psychotherapie, including a collaboration with some Englishmen (complicated by the animus of a psychoanalytic faction whose sectarian approach is incompatible with science: 'diese ja auf einem sektirerhaften Standpunkt stehen, der mit Wissenschaft nichts zu tun hat'). In 1946 Jung writes to explain his silence during the war years, as he feared compromising his Dutch colleague: 'Ich war ja wegen meiner kritischen Aeusserungen von der Gestapo "vorgemerkt", meine Bücher waren in Deutschland verboten und in Frankreich wurden sie grossenteils zerstört'; he is pleased to report a collaboration with some 'Freudians', and 'can only hope and wish that no one will become a "Jungian"', explaining his opposition to the doctrinaire strain in Freudian psychology: 'Ich vertrete ja keine Doktrin, sondern beschreibe Tatsachen ... Ich kritisiere an der Freud'schen Psychologie eine gewisse Enge und Voreingenommenheit ... Ich lasse jedem die Freiheit, auf seine besondere Art mit den Tatsachen fertig zu werden'. (12)