He wanted to marry, and had made the acquaintance of a seemingly suitable girl. I remember, for example, the case of a young man with a strong mother complex. Later, however, when I often used to carry out the experiment with my patients, it became quite clear that a significant number of answers did indeed hit the mark. So fascinated was I by these experiments that I altogether forgot to take notes, which I afterward greatly regretted. All sorts of undeniably remarkable results emerged-meaningful connections with my own thought processes which I could not explain to myself…ĭuring the whole of those summer holidays I was preoccupied with the question: Are the I Ching’s answers meaningful or not? If they are, how does the connection between the psychic and the physical sequence of events come about? Time and again I encountered amazing coincidences which seemed to suggest the idea of an acausal parallelism (a synchronicity, as I later called it). I would sit for hours on the ground beneath the hundred-year-old pear tree, the I Ching beside me, practicing the technique by referring the resultant oracles to one another in an interplay of questions and answers. Instead of traditional stalks of yarrow required by the classical method, I cut myself a bunch of reeds. One summer i n Bollingen I resolved to make an all-out attack on the riddle of this book. In 1923 we invited him to Zurich and he spoke on the I Ching (or Yi Jing) at the Psychology Club.Įven before meeting him I had been interested in Oriental philosophy, and around 1920 had begun experimenting with the I Ching. “I first met Richard Wilhelm at Count Keyserling’s during a meeting of the “School of Wisdom” in Darmstadt. Collected Works Volume 4 – Freud & Psychoanalysis.Collected Works Volume 3 – Psychogenesis of Mental Disease.Collected Works Volume 15 – Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature.Collected Works Volume 16 – Practice of Psychotherapy.Collected Works Volume 8 – Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche.Collected Works Volume 10 – Civilization in Transition.Collected Works Volume 9(1) – Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.Collected Works Volume 2: Experimental Researches.Collected Works Volume 1 Psychiatric Studies.Collected Works Volume 14 – Mysterium Coniunctionis.Collected Works Volume 9 (2) – Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self.Collected Works Volume 18 – The Symbolic Life.Collected Works Volume 17 – Development of Personality.Collected Works Volume 13 – Alchemical Studies.Collected Works Volume 12 – Psychology and Alchemy.

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