Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung's correspondence on synchronicity

[Swamp Thing]

http://nautil.us/issue/93/forerunners/the-synchronicity-of-wolfgang-pauli-and-carl-jung

 

[epenguin]

I've always had an open mind towards the ideas of Jung despite the scientific dodginess, on the basis that in the areas covered it was something like that or nothing at present. (Jordan Peterson is trying a revival of them - he recounts that in academic and clinical psychology it has been career death to even mention his name.) But I thought Jung's pretensions to universal philosophy embracing e.g. physics was overextension of his understanding. Especially when combined with the near impenetrability of a lot of his writing.

Stuff here about Pauli I didn't know. Sure without his exclusion principle there would be no chemistry or it would be unrecognisably different, is that right? But the guy lost out to a chemist!

 

[Evo]

http://nautil.us/issue/93/forerunners/the-synchronicity-of-wolfgang-pauli-and-carl-jung

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From your link

Thanks to Jung, Pauli had become immersed in the studies of mysticism, numerology, and ancient symbolism.

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