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William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley – Quotations

C.G. Jung: His Friendships with Mary Mellon and J.B. Priestley

Franz Jung told me that his father had “a nose and ears”-that he was human. It is a C. G. Jung with “a nose and ears” who appears in the correspondence with Mary Mellon.  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page xi

Priestley did a BBC broadcast on Jung and his work; when Jung saw the transcript he commented that he had never seen a better summary of his main ideas in such a concise form-he called it a masterpiece. ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page xii

Later in 1946, Priestley persuaded Jung to do a talk for the BBC: “The Fight with the Shadow.”  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page xii

Journey Down a Rainbow, by Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes, was the last book Emma Jung read before her death in 1955.  William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page xii

Under a Freedom of Information Act request, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C., let me examine copies of the FBI reports on Jung.  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page xiii

In 1934, Mary and Paul both read Jung’s Modern Man in Search of a Soul, with which they were impressed.  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 4

While Mary had suffered from asthma since childhood, Paul had suffered from his parents’ mismatched marriage, and their separation and divorce.  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 4

The Mellons did see Jung, however, in October, 193 7, at a seminar on “Dream Symbols and the Individuation Process” that Jung gave under the auspices of the Analytical Psychology Club in New York-after he had delivered his Terry Lectures on “Religion in the Light of Science and Philosophy” at Yale.  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Pages 4-5

On December 16, Jung’s secretary replied that they could attend the seminar in May and June, though it would probably be impossible for them to see Jung individually. ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 5

From Claridge’s in Brook Street, Paul asked Jung’s secretary whether he [Paul Mellon] could work with Toni Wolff, Jung’s closest associate, during their stay. ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 5

Mary even went to his lectures in German at the Federal Institute of Technology, where Jung taught.  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 6

When Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, Jung at first thought Mary had left Europe. When he realized she had remained, he wrote her that it was courageous to stay and share whatever fate had in store for them.  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 7

As the analysis proceeded, a strong transference and countertransference developed between Mary and Jung. The growing strength of the transference and countertransference can be seen in the quality of the subsequent correspondence and in the signatures. ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 7

In December, Mary sent Jung a picture of himself and one of Ascona that Paul had taken. She teased that she could just hear him laugh: Did she look like a wet mouse the day of the party? Did he feel like a caged lion?  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 7

He mentioned “a hell” of a trick her Christian name Mary played with him, as he was thinking of Gnostic texts and the name Maria. ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 7-8

Mary subsequently gave the name Bollingen to the idea that she conceived for the translation and publication of Jung’s works in English.  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 8

He [Jung] wrote that the Swiss government had advised people to lay in stores of food: Switzerland could support itself if its people would eat one-fifth less. [During WWII]  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 8

He [Jung] had seen a good number of the French interned in Switzerland, and said it was a complete moral crash on the part of France. ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 9

He concluded by saying that Europeans were now in prison [WWII]: God save our souls. That was more important than butter!  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 9

Germany’s war against Britain, and the destruction of France, he said, were almost more than one could bear. The devastation of London by bombing had hurt Jung as if England were his own country. ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 9-10

Her plans for an enclosed garden at the Mellon house-something not only in the mind but in earth and stone-gave him a feeling of peace and restfulness, something to look forward to beyond the abomination of war and Germany’s Nietzschean insanity.  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 10

Jung continued, saying it was now a question whether they in Europe could retain the treasures of culture against the onslaught of the powers of darkness.  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 10

It would be madness to attack Switzerland, said Jung, but the Germans were mad. All the Swiss sympathies were on the British side.  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 10

A Swiss from Berlin mentioned that workmen criticized Hitler and called him a liar. But the young people in Germany were still full of illusions, though the mood in the army had dropped since Britain could not be conquered.  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 10

Perhaps Switzerland would fall under German domination. In that case he would certainly be silenced; he would not mind, provided he still had his books and a roof over his head. But he hoped to see [Mary] her again and sent her every good wish.  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 10-11

Subsequent correspondence in 1941 shows that Mary was becoming too much identified with Jung: it was showing in her dreams. In April, Jung responded to dreams about “twin children, twin men, twin Jungs.”  ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 11

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