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Carl Jung autograph letter signed, with exceptional content on the anima and animus, Jung's theory of the unconscious feminine and masculine sides of men and women respectively. Dated 4 October 1951 on Jung's personal embossed stationery, he writes to his mentee, the psychoanalyst Dr. Rivkah Scharf Kluger, interpreting one of her dreams. Letter translated from German reads in full,
''Dear Miss! / Even though I was on vacation, I still did not find the time for the letter that I meant to write you. There was one interruption after another. My vacation did not get any more tranquil until September, allowing me to enjoy my leisure time a little. However, I still had to write down my Eranos lecture, which I had given extemporaneously, as well as revise my paper on synchronicity. Plus, some parts of Job still needed to be improved. During the past two weeks, I have increasingly sensed that I was needed in Los Angeles. Now I just received your letter, and I have an hour's time to answer it, to the extent that I am even able to do so.
Without a doubt, you dreamed the quaternio dream in order to straighten out the situation. The latter is not balanced, as you are trying to move the animus-anima relationship into the personal or mundane reality. This, however, is tantamount to eliminating it. Neither of these things can be done, though. Just as a mother cannot be the godmother at the same time, no reality-oriented woman can simultaneously be the anima. If she is that, then, in equal measure, she is a fantasy and not reality-oriented, which means that, at best, she contains the man whereas her other side is not covered and thus searches for a man who will complete her. If he is the animus simultaneously, then she is contained within him and will never reach him completely, since he will always be searching for the woman who completes him, for his real woman is the real woman and not a fantasy, otherwise he would be contained within her (the woman), whereby he would be forcing her into an inflation unless, to compensate, she were searching for a second relationship. This is the meaning of the dream and, in large part, of your imagination as well. Except that the latter goes still further: the more you desire him, the more you will drive him, for compensation, into an anima-relationship with G. Indeed, you will become Salome and he will be John the Baptist, and it will cost him his head. The anima becomes Ophelia because her brother-lover is dead. Only the head will remain for you, while you really desired the body.
A divine authority separates us from all those whom we love: when we desire the matters of this world and of the daily reality, the numinous and present otherworldliness will flee from us, and, whenever the latter delights us with magic splendor, the physical world is but a paltry moment and a wretched place. If it were not so, we would be gods or eternally unconscious stones.
You may raise a complaint about this, but not with any earthly civil registry office, but presumably only with the archangel Phanuel who, it seems, is responsible for incongruities of this sort. / Beware of your Saturn! Affectionately, your C.G. Jung''.
Two page letter on a single sheet measures 8.125'' x 11.5'', penned by Jung in black fountain pen. Folds, else near fine condition.
Carl Jung Autograph Letter Signed, Interpreting a Dream Using the Anima-Animus Framework: ''...A divine authority separates us from all those whom we love...''
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