
On Psychological and Visionary Art
The first English translation of Jung’s landmark lecture on Nerval’s hallucinatory memoir
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zürich on the French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval''s visionary memoir, Aurélia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent attempt to emerge from madness. Published here for the f...
The first English translation of Jung’s landmark lecture on Nerval’s hallucinatory memoir
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zürich on the French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval''s visionary memoir, Aurélia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent attempt to emerge from madness. Published here for the f...