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Deciphering the cosmic number : the strange friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung
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Deciphering the cosmic number : the strange friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung

Author: Arthur I Miller
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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In 1932, the groundbreaking physicist Wolfgang Pauli met the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Pauli was fascinated by the inner reaches of his own psyche and not afraid to dabble in the occult, while Jung looked to science for answers to the psychological questions that tormented him. Their rich friendship led them, in Jung's words, into "the no-man's land between physics and the psychology of the unconscious ... the  Read more...
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Named Person: Wolfgang Pauli; C G Jung; Carl G Jung; Wolfgang (Physiker) Pauli
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.

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Tells the story of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung and the physicist Wolfgang Pauli's struggle to qualify the unconscious.  Read more...

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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 Read more...

 
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