The Zofingia lectures

Hardbound; xxvi + 129 pp., including five black-and-white illustrations and an index. The first, 1983 edition is the terminal version of Supplementary Volume 'A.' Supplementary Volume 'A' is not currently included in the digital edition of Jung's Collected Works, which is also among the Library's holdings. Supplementary Volume 'A' of the Collected Works was the twenty-first to be published. From the "Introduction" by M-L. von Franz: "Although I believe that Jung himself would not have cared to publish these juvenalia, they are highly interesting, readable, and important. They are lectures he gave to his fellow students at Basel University when he was between twenty-one and twenty-three years of age. On the 18th of May 1895 he had joined the Basel section of the color- wearing fraternity "Zofingia," in which it was a tradition for the members to give, from time to time, lectures about their special fields of interest. The lectures were supposed to meet a high scientific standard and at the same time to express political and other opinions in an outspoken manner befitting a closed circle whose members felt free of academic and social conventions. The reader has to bear this in mind when reading the often sarcastic and strong language that the young medical candidate, C.G. Jung, used in expressing his convictions." Contents: Editorial note / William McGuire List of illustrations Introduction / Marie-Louise von Franz I. The border zones of exact science (November 1896) Introduction The border zones of exact science II. Some thoughts on psychology (May 1897) General introduction Rational psychology Introduction Rational psychology Empirical psychology Introduction Empirical psychology Conclusion III. Inaugural address, upon assuming the chairmanship of the Zofingia Club (Winter semester 1897/98) IV. Thoughts on the nature and value of speculative inquiry (Summer semester 1898) Introduction Thoughts on the nature and value of speculative inquiry V. Thoughts on the interpretation of Christianity, with reference to the theory of Albrecht Ritschl (January 1899) Praefatio auditori benevolo! Thoughts on the interpretation of Christianity Appendix: Texts Index