Jung's Seven Sermons to the Dead
On a summer Sunday in 1916, the front doorbell of Carl Jung’s house on Lake Zurich began ringing frantically. The whole family heard it, and the maids in the kitchen could see the bell plate swinging. Nobody stood at the door. The days leading up to it had been strange in his telling. His children were having anxious dreams, the air of the house felt thick, and Jung described the place as feeling crammed full of presences. Out of that crowded atmosphere came, as he experienced it, a question from the dead, and over three evenings he wrote them an answer. The haunting, he reported, ended the moment his pen touched paper. ...