Jung’s concept of the psyche was according to Pauli at great risk of becoming ‘overloaded’, i. e. of expanding beyond its proper limits and consequently turning into a tautological or redundant concept. Jung comes close to repeating the mistake of Platonic idealism which isolates the psyche from the material and natural processes.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
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Pauli’s preferences were decidedly non-platonic. In contrast to Plato, Pauli was looking for the link between sensory impressions and concepts. This question hardly interested Plato, who considered sensory experience of no crucial importance to human knowledge. Real knowledge is based solely on reason.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
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…he [Pauli] accuses Jung of platonic idealism… …the one-sided ‘mentalist’ worldview of the Platonists…
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
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Pauli…saw himself as the scientific sponsor of the Jung Institute [in Zürich] and with time became increasingly troubled when he saw that the Institute was not following Jung’s original aims. In the summer of 1956 he wrote three angry letters to the trustees of the Institute, in which he called for its activities to be subjected to stricter scientific requirements. He felt that the Institute was threatening to damage and nullify Jung’s efforts to bring his psychology in as a branch of science.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
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Pauli’s way of paying tribute to Jung is rather to show how far Jung’s perspective is a productive one and which fundamental problems and shortcomings remain to be tackled.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
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[Pauli] never discussed his deeper interest in Jung’s psychology openly with Bohr… The reason for this might have been that he did not see Bohr as interested in or receptive to the type of discussion he was looking for.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
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…Pauli had accepted the greater part of Jung’s perspective and he uses Jungian terminology consistently in his letters. But at the same time it is also evident that Pauli is critical of some of Jung’s concepts…
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
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The language I speak must be ambiguous… I strive quite consciously and deliberately for ambiguity of expression, because it is superior to unequivocalness and reflects the nature of life. … I purposely allow all the overtones and undertones to be heard, partly because they are there anyway, and partly because they give a fuller picture of reality.
—Jung to Werblowsky, 17 Jun. 1952, C.G. Jung Letters, vol. 2, 70.
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In his effort to understand and help his patients Jung’s first, and in fact only, concern was to take people’s statements and experiences seriously…
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung
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