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| Named Person: | Wolfgang Pauli; C G Jung; Carl G Jung; Wolfgang (Physiker) Pauli |
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| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Arthur I Miller |
| ISBN: | 9780393065329 0393065324 |
| OCLC Number: | 272305076 |
| Description: | xxv, 336 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1 Dangerously Famous 3 -- 2 Early Successes, Early Failures 18 -- 3 The Philosopher's Stone 44 -- 4 / Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde 51 -- 5 Intermezzo-Three versus Four: Alchemy, Mysticism, and the Dawn of Modern Science 64 -- 6 Pauli, Heisenberg, and the Great Quantum Breakthrough 89 -- 7 Mephistopheles 107 -- 8 The Dark Hunting Ground of the Mind 124 -- 9 Mandalas 148 -- 10 The Superior Man Sets His Life in Order 158 -- 11 Synchronicity 183 -- 12 Dreams of Primal Numbers 208 -- 13 Second Intermezzo-Road to Yesterday 227 -- 14 Through the Looking Glass 233 -- 15 The Mysterious Number 137 247. |
| Responsibility: | Arthur I. Miller. |
Abstract:
Tells the story of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung and the physicist Wolfgang Pauli's struggle to qualify the unconscious.
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Arthur I. Miller is a master at capturing the intersection of creativity and intelligence. He did it with Einstein and Picasso, and now he does it with Pauli and Jung. Their shared obsession with the number 137 provides a window into their genius.--Walter Isaacson Read more...
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