Letters Volume 2, 1951-1961

Letters Volume 2, 1951-1961 is a work by C. G. Jung (1975).

Core claims

• The final decade of Jung’s correspondence constitutes an unwritten Volume 19 of the Collected Works — a systematic reformulation of his mature positions on God-image, synchronicity, and the reality of the psyche, delivered in the intimate register of epistolary address rather than formal treatise.
• Jung’s repeated insistence on the distinction between God and God-image across dozens of letters to clergymen reveals not intellectual repetitiveness but a diagnostic obsession: the single conceptual failure he believed most endangered both theology and psychology in the twentieth century.
• The editorial architecture of the Letters — shaped by medical discretion, family embargo, and the destruction of the Toni Wolff correspondence — means the volume is as significant for what it withholds as for what it contains, making it an object lesson in how the Self is always partially concealed even in its most deliberate acts of disclosure.

Related questions

• How does Jung’s insistence on the God-image distinction in his letters to clergymen compare with Edward Edinger’s systematization of that distinction in The New God-Image: A Study of Jung’s Answer to Job?
• In what ways does the editorial suppression of Jung’s personal letters mirror the dynamics of persona and shadow that James Hollis describes in The Middle Passage as central to individuation at midlife?
• How does Jung’s epistolary method of thinking-through-dialogue with specific interlocutors relate to Wolfgang Pauli’s collaborative exchange with Jung documented in Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932–1958?

See also

• Library page: /library/the-psyche/jung-letters-volume-2/

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