THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Begin Statement Hits Intolerance Psychiatrist Jung and Brushing Anti-Semitism By ALLEN A. WARSEN Barbara Hannah's "Jung: His Life and Work, a Biog- raphical Memoir," was pub- lished in soft cover by Put- nam. As the title indicates, the book is an overview of Carl Gustav Jung's life and creativity. Born on July 26, 1875, he was the son of Rev. Paul Jung (1832-1896) and the grandson of Prof. Carl Gustav Jung (1795-1864), the founder of the Institute of Good Hope for Mentally Sick Children, a pioneering mental institution. Accord- ing to legend the grandfather was "a natural son" of Johann Wolfgang Goethe. The grandson, who since early childhood exhibited introverted tendencies, started school at age six. Like most schools in those days, it followed the Biblical precept "spare the rod, spoil the child." Since adolescence Jung enjoyed discover- ing paradoxes, mainly in religion. He wondered, for instance, "How could a oneness be simultane- ously a threeness?" When he was getting ready for his first communion, "He felt there must be a great mystery behind so pre- posterous an impossibil- ity as ordinary bread be- coming the body of Christ and ordinary wine the blood, so that. clearly we were meant to incorpo- rate Him into ourselves. How could that be?" Years later, Jung would point out that the Christian religion by demanding that its adherents rely on Christ for their welfare "encouraged a universal but fatal human tendency to remain infantile." Upon graduating from Naturally, jealousy in a Basel University, Jung, at case like this was inevitable first, could not decide which and the cause of marital field of medicine to choose. difficulties. Jung, however, He chose psychiatry and ac- realizing that "the kernal of cepted a position at Bur- all jealousy is lack of love," gholzli, the foremost mental resolved this painful situa- hospital in Zurich. tion by giving "a most satis- At Burgholzli, Jung's factory amount" of it to knowledge of the human both, his wife and Toni. This psyche deepened. There, way he saved his marriage too, he discovered, "inde- and his companionship with pendently of Freud," the Toni. Some time later, Emma unconscious, and recog- nized the importance of the Jung reminisced: "You see," "individual story and indi- she told the author, "he vidual psychology." He, never took anything from however, credited Freud for me to give Toni, but the introducing "psychology more he gave her, the more into psychiatry" and con- he seemed able to give me." The author, Barbara sidered him as a superior individual. But after years Hannah, states, "Of of close friendship, Jung course, this amazing in- broke with Freud because sight was not reached he would not accept the lat- easily or without suffer- ter's theory of sex as "a ing, but that it was reached at all is the amaz- dogma." In 1909, Jung left Bur- ing thing when one gholzli, regarding the time thinks of the possessive he had spent there as his attitude of most wives." It is beyond the scope of years of "apprenticeship." The author remarks this article to discuss Jun- that when Jung started gian psychology. Instead, his psychiatric practice we will consider the charge at Burgholzli, he was 25 that Jung was an anti- years old, single and un- Semite. The author devotes many known. But when he left, he was 34, married, the pages and quotes exten- father of three children sively from Jungian writ- and well-known both in ings to prove that Jung felt no hostility towards the Europe and America. While treating Toni Jewish people. She even Wolff, a young woman who points out that "many lead- suffered from depression, ing J. - such as Dr. Jung, already married, fell Gerhard Adler of London — in love with her. The have themselves publicly author, who knew Toni, Book Describes characterizes her as follows: "She was not beautiful, NEW YORK — A picture more like a goddess than a mortal woman. She had an of contemporary Israel — extraordinary genius for ac- described by the publisher companying men — and as the bad and the beautiful some women too, in a differ- — is painted by Ruth ent way — whose destiny it Shamir in her first novel, was to enter the uncon- "All Our Vows," to be pub- lished March 31 by Shen- scious." gold. - This story of war, politics and romance, set against a background of "Israel at bay," reflects the author's views of Israeli society. In "All Our Vows" Shamir depicts her home- land not only as an idealis- TOTALLY AIR TIGHT tic and democratic land of heroes and pioneers but also AT .006 CFM as a country whose moral values are threatened by cynicism, corruption and greed. Miri, heroine of "All Our Vows," returns for a visit to her native Israel from a listless marriage in Los Angeles. She de- NOW THRU cides to stay on when she GREAT LAKES LAKES VINYL WINDOWS FREE* NSTALLATION denied that there was any truth in the rumor." She blames the Freudian psy- chologists for starting and spreading this false rumor. Her quotations from Jung's writings "prove be- yond doubt that since 1918, if not before, Jung had been emphasizing the impor- tance of realizing that great differences exist not only between the Jewish and Aryan races but between all races and all nations." May I point out to the Jungian psychologist, Miss Hannah, that Jews are a religiocultural people and not a race; and according to Webs- ter's New World Dictio- nary of the American Language, "Aryan has no validity as a racial term, although it has been so used, notoriously, by the Nazis to mean a 'Cauca- sian of non-Jewish des- cent.' " I should also point out that Jung, in his writings, like Miss Hannah, made serious racist statements. Some are: "He (the Jew) is domesti- cated to a higher degree than we (the Aryans) are, but he is badly at a loss for that quality in man which roots and draws new strength from below. (This is an old anti-Jewish charge.) This chthonic (ear- thy) quality is found in 2 Sides of Israel meets Ron, the dashing aide to a rising Israeli politician. Thoughtlessly at first, then with an all- consuming passion, she plunges into a heady af- fair. As Israel fights for survi- val during the Yom Kippur War, the lovers' passion peaks — until Miri comes to understand that she must reject the life Ron offers and work out her destiny alone, in the land of her people. The publisher says readers will find in Miri's quest for self-discovery a metaphor for Israel's struggle to re- gain its soul. Author Ruth Shamir grew up in Israel and served in the Israel Defense Forces before coming to the U.S. to study law. Today she is an immigration lawyer, with offices in Los Angeles and Tel Aviv. • Friday, March 4, 1983 15 dangerous concentration in the Germanic peoples. Naturally the Aryan Euro- pean has not noticed any signs of this for a very long time, but perhaps he is be- ginning to notice it in the present war; and again, perhaps not. The Jew has too little of this quality — where has he his own earthy underfoot?" 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