The Correspondence of Victoria Ocampo, Count Keyserling and C. G. Jung centres on two pivotal meetings: Victoria Ocampo and Hermann von Keyserling’s in 1929, and Ocampo and Carl Gustav Jung’s in 1934. The first section of the book chronicles these encounters, which proved to be key moments in the lives of the players and had repercussions both private and public. The later sections consist of the correspondence and other writings that preceded and followed these meetings, translated from French, German, and Spanish, much of it for the first time.
Jung framed Keyserling’s account of the encounter with Ocampo as "one of the most beautiful animus-anima stories I have ever heard." But that story, told here from the three points of view of the pioneering Argentine intellectual, the Baltic German philosopher, and the Swiss founder of analytical psychology, can also be read in the contexts of early-twentieth-century feminism and of gender and sexual politics, of the colonizing European gaze on the Americas, of Argentina and its cultural complexes, of typological impasses, and of Eros and the power of words.
The fraught relationships and power dynamics among three influential figures will be of interest to analytical psychologists, historians of psychological disciplines and of South America, as well as general readers.
Author(s): Craig Stephenson
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 261
City: London
Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Part One Introductory Essay
Keyserling and Jung
Ocampo and Keyserling
Ocampo and Jung
A New Lucidity
Editor’s Note
Part Two Ocampo and Keyserling, 1927–1929
Part Three Keyserling and Jung, 1929–1932
Part Four Ocampo and Jung, 1934–1943
Part Five Ocampo and Jung Meet, 1934
Ways of Being: A Visit to Jung
Part Six Ocampo and Keyserling Meet Again, 1939
Part Seven Keyserling On Jung (1944) and Ocampo (1936, 1941)
C. G. Jung – Analyst and Analysand
C. G. Jung – Depth Psychology
C. G. Jung – Psychological Craftsman
Victoria Ocampo – South America
Victoria Ocampo – Looking Through
Part Eight Ocampo Rebuts Keyserling (1951)
Motive
Sailing Upstream
Some Facts
Correspondence and Rorschach Test
Versailles
Presentiments and Divergences
Bernard Shaw and His Female Admirers
My Delicadeza Is Put to the Test
How the Plan Was Changed
The Need for Hero Worship
The Meditations
Kierkegaard Defines the Misunderstanding
Ten Years Later
Darmstadt
When It Rains, It Pours
Praise That Offends
Does It Matter to Be Or Not to Be in the Right?
Let’s Agree to Differ [English]
“Greetings De Profundis”
Drieu and Keyserling
V.O. Used as Symbol
In Questions of Love …
Conceit
Puna, Llama, and Telluric Woman
An Explanation of the Chapter “V.O.”
The Truth About the Dead
Keyserling and Valéry
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
