The unlikely friendship of Pauli and Jung
“It was as if the wind had blown in from the lunatic asylum,” wrote psychoanalyst Carl Jung, of physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s first visit. Scientist and writer Arthur I. Miller tells the tale of how the patient-analyst relationship between Jung and Pauli evolved into a friendship that deeply influenced Pauli’s work. “Pauli had always been fascinated by alchemy, magic and myth, all of which were central to Jung’s psychology,” writes Miller. “Privately, he attributed his work towards CPT [charge, parity, and time] symmetry to discussions and creativity sparked through his conversations with Jung.”
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