The Seba library treats Golem in 6 passages, across 4 authors (including Jung, C.G., Hillman, James, Jung, C. G.).
Now, these two figures play the main roles in the story. Then there is that fearful thing, the Golem. And there is besides a mysterious character called Athanasius Pernath.
Jung reads Meyrink’s Golem as a ‘fearful thing’ that serves as a symbolic focal point within the novel’s psychic drama, paired with the immortal figure Athanasius Pernath who represents the Self or ‘diamond body’ at the mandala’s centre.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984thesis
Robot, Golem, Frankenstein’s monster – is this technology or a view of it? That we speak of technology with these fantasy images ought to tell us that it too is a psychic expression.
Hillman argues that the Golem, alongside Robot and Frankenstein’s monster, is a fantasy image through which the psyche projects soul onto technology, revealing that the ‘soullessness’ of machines reflects a Cartesian world-view rather than the nature of things themselves.
, Alchemical Psychology, 2010thesis
Gustav Meyrink (1868-1923), Austrian author. Best-known works: Der Golem (1915) and Das grüne Gesicht (1916).
Jung’s editorial note in Letters identifies Meyrink’s Der Golem as one of the author’s defining works, situating the novel within the intellectual milieu Jung engaged with during the formative years of analytical psychology.
, Letters Volume 2, 1951-1961, 1975supporting
Gustav Meyrink (1868-1923), Austrian author. Best-known works: Der Golem (1915) and Das grüne Gesicht (1916).
The same editorial citation in the earlier Letters volume confirms the consistent cross-referencing of Meyrink’s Golem as culturally significant throughout Jung’s correspondence.
, Letters Volume 1: 1906-1950, 1973supporting
Pernath, Athanasius, see Meyrink, Gustav: Der Golem
The index entry in Dream Analysis explicitly cross-references Athanasius Pernath to Meyrink’s Der Golem, confirming that Jung treated the novel’s characters — including the Golem — as a sustained symbolic system within his seminar interpretations.
, Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984supporting
See Meyrink, The White Dominican, tr. M. Mitchell (1921/1994), ch. 7.
A footnote in The Red Book cross-references Meyrink’s wider body of occult fiction, placing the Golem novel within the broader context of Meyrink’s influence on Jung’s imaginative and symbolic world.
, The Red Book: Liber Novus, 2009aside