Reminiscences of C.G. Jung and His Influences
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A single talk by Laurens van der Post recalling his friendship with Jung and Jung’s influence today, including an early recording of Jung’s own voice from Eranos in the 1950s.
Laurens van der Post
Sir Laurens van der Post (1906–1996) was a South African-born writer, farmer, soldier, explorer and public figure. After working as a journalist in South Africa, London and France, he served in the Second World War and survived years as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Java. His books, including Venture to the Interior (1952) and The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and his campaigning drew wide attention to the Bushmen of the Kalahari. A close friend of Jung for some sixteen years, he wrote Jung and the Story of Our Time (1975). He was knighted in 1981.
Parts
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Part 1: Reminiscences of C.G. Jung and His Influences Today
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Laurens van der Post remembers his friendship with Jung and argues that Jung could only be fully understood in person. He plays an excerpt, likely the earliest recording of Jung's voice, made at an Eranos conference in Ascona in the 1950s, in which Jung tells a childhood story explaining why he became a psychologist and speaks about Freud, the God-image, the shadow and the value of the individual.