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Introduction to 'the Piano Lesson' |
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donderdag 26 maart 2009 09:32 |
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Harvest. Journal for Jungian Studies, Vol. 48 No. 2, 2002. Theoretical physicist and Nobel prize winner Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) was the young neurotic scientist of which Carl Gustav Jung published a series of dreams in Psychology and Alchemy. Between 1931 and 1934 he was in analysis with Erna Rosenbaum and Jung himself. Pauli ended the analysis in October 1934 after he met Franca Bertram and married her. She was his second wife. At that time Pauli felt a need to get away from dream interpretation and dream analysis. He knew that his feeling function was not well developed, but he hoped that life would resolve the remaining problems in his relationship with the unconscious. To his embarrassment, however, the unconscious started to send him dreams with mathematical and physical symbols. In an essay of June 1948 he called this dream-symbolism 'background physics.' (Meier, 2001, 179) A detailed study of Pauli's thoughts on "background physics" is the subject of a recent thesis (Meijgaard, 1998). |
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Commentary on 'The Piano Lesson' |
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donderdag 26 maart 2009 08:09 |
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Harvest. Journal for Jungian Studies, Vol. 48 No. 2, 2002. The active imagination The Piano Lesson starts with the unhappiness Wolfgang Pauli must have felt for many years. He could not bring the two schools together. By the older school Pauli means theoretical physics. The modern school stands for depth psychology. The girl from Küsnacht is Marie-Louise von Franz. Pauli hopes that she, as a reflection of his soul, can help him to bring theoretical physics and depth psychology together. To that end he enters in his imagination the house of von Franz. Immediately he hears the voice of his inner master. The conical paper bags of the master refer to the so-called Minkowski light cones in relativity theory (Rohrlich, 1987, 75-86). The sheets of the conical bags seem to connect events that occur at different points of time but are related to each other through their common meaning. The year 1913 is the year in which Pauli's godfather Ernst Mach introduced young Wolfi into the world of classical physics. He was used to sit with his grandmother, a singer at the Imperial Opera in Vienna, at the piano (Enz, 1994, 14). But apparently he stopped piano playing at the age of thirteen. |
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WOLFGANG PAULI: THE PIANO LESSON |
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zaterdag 07 maart 2009 07:50 |
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An active fantasy about the unconscious (October 1953) Dedicated in friendship to Miss Dr. Marie-Louise v. Franz Translated from the German by Frederik W. Wiegel, Herbert van Erkelens and Jos van Meurs. (This translation has been published with an introduction and a commentary in: Harvest. Journal for Jungian Studies, 2002, Volume 48, No. 2.) It was a misty day and I had been seriously troubled for quite some time. There were namely two schools: in the older school they understood only words but not the meaning. In the modern school they understood the meaning, but not my words. I could not bring the two schools together. |
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Pauli and Jung
