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Last week, wreathed by pipe smoke that swirled through his thinning white hair and gave him the aspect of a medieval alchemist, Jung was busy in the study of his oldfashioned, high-ceilinged house at Küsnacht on Lake Zurich. The three-volume work on which he was dotting the last "i" seemed strange for a modern psychiatrist: Representation of the Problems of Opposites in Medieval Natural Philosophy. "Pretty abstruse, huh?" said Jung to a visitor. Then laughter rocked his heavy shoulders. "I must laugh! I have such a hell of a trouble to make people see what...
...Alchemist. One of the most controversial issues about Jung-outside psychiatry-concerns Nazi Germany. Some of his writings about race have been abused by others for racist propaganda. Chiefly because he held the editorship of a German psychoanalytic journal during the Nazi regime (his co-editor at one time was a relative of Hermann Göring), Jung has sometimes been accused of Nazi sympathies. Jung's position: as a foreigner of renown, he merely took the job to safeguard what he could of German psychiatry...
Novelist de Beauvoir's Count Fosca is immortal-the result of downing a beaker of the elixir of life distilled by an Egyptian alchemist. So when he meets ravishing Regina, a 20th century French actress, Fosca is 700 years old (he still looks thirtyish) and is thoroughly fed up with life...
...Alchemists turned out to be an un appreciated and neglected lot, because they failed to make gold. Arthur Dove (1880-1946) was an alchemist in art. He too was unappreciated, and perhaps he too failed ever to achieve his goal. But Dove's devoted experiments make an intriguing chapter in U.S. art. The liveliness and evanescent loveliness of Dove's efforts are demonstrated this week by a retrospective show at Cornell University's White Museum of Art in Ithaca, N.Y. The exhibition proves him to have been an early source of the abstract expressionism which...
Last week the burning issue of AD-X2, an additive powder supposed to prolong the life of storage batteries, came before the Senate Small Business Committee. The testimony had a curiously speculative, unreal and alchemical quality as if this storage battery* had been invented by Alchemist Zozimus of Panopolis and AD-X2 concocted by Cagliostro...