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EINSTEIN, Albert, Physicist, humanitarian. Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein"), to Don L. Stacy, Princeton, 7 November 1949. 1 page, 4to, on embossed personal stationery.
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EINSTEIN, Albert, Physicist, humanitarian. Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein"), to Don L. Stacy, Princeton, 7 November 1949. 1 page, 4to, on embossed personal stationery.
EINSTEIN ON "DR. JUNG" AND HIS POSITION ON "THE NAZI IDEOLOGY" AND THE "HITLER REGIME"
Hitler's rise to power in 1933 meant different things to different German intellectuals. For Einstein it was an urgent signal to flee -- a decision that certainly saved his life. For Carl Jung (1875-1961), it meant the emergence of a regime that championed several of his psychological and philosophical beliefs. Both Hitler and Jung thought that national characteristics flowed from deep well-springs of collective racial consciousness. They both shared a fascination with mythic Nordic heroes and Jung saw the Nazi leader as an exemplary modern embodiment of the ancient Gods. In 1937 Jung described Hitler as "a medium, German policy is not made; it is revealed through Hitler. He is the mouthpiece of the Gods of old...He is the Sybil, the Delphic oracle." Jung chaired a Nazi-sponsored organization of psychotherapists, and criticized his former colleague Sigmund Freud by saying Freud's "Jewish" psychoanalysis was ill equipped to understand the Germanic soul. After the Reich's defeat, Jung made lame attempts at painting himself as an opponent of the regime, and in postwar editions of his works expunged some of his more inflammatory passages. Here, in 1949, Einstein thinks Jung's foolish ideas unworthy of his indignation: "Utterances of Dr. Jung relating to his position to the Nazi ideology have been the subject of public discussion during the time of the Hitler regime and afterwards. During this past summer, I understand, the 'Saturday Review of Literature' has published letters and statements on that matter so that it will be easy for you to acquaint yourselfs [sic] with the facts. The lability of intellectuals in matters of practical philosophy is so general and well known that you should not be too excited about the matter."
EINSTEIN ON "DR. JUNG" AND HIS POSITION ON "THE NAZI IDEOLOGY" AND THE "HITLER REGIME"
Hitler's rise to power in 1933 meant different things to different German intellectuals. For Einstein it was an urgent signal to flee -- a decision that certainly saved his life. For Carl Jung (1875-1961), it meant the emergence of a regime that championed several of his psychological and philosophical beliefs. Both Hitler and Jung thought that national characteristics flowed from deep well-springs of collective racial consciousness. They both shared a fascination with mythic Nordic heroes and Jung saw the Nazi leader as an exemplary modern embodiment of the ancient Gods. In 1937 Jung described Hitler as "a medium, German policy is not made; it is revealed through Hitler. He is the mouthpiece of the Gods of old...He is the Sybil, the Delphic oracle." Jung chaired a Nazi-sponsored organization of psychotherapists, and criticized his former colleague Sigmund Freud by saying Freud's "Jewish" psychoanalysis was ill equipped to understand the Germanic soul. After the Reich's defeat, Jung made lame attempts at painting himself as an opponent of the regime, and in postwar editions of his works expunged some of his more inflammatory passages. Here, in 1949, Einstein thinks Jung's foolish ideas unworthy of his indignation: "Utterances of Dr. Jung relating to his position to the Nazi ideology have been the subject of public discussion during the time of the Hitler regime and afterwards. During this past summer, I understand, the 'Saturday Review of Literature' has published letters and statements on that matter so that it will be easy for you to acquaint yourselfs [sic] with the facts. The lability of intellectuals in matters of practical philosophy is so general and well known that you should not be too excited about the matter."