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PREFACE
From 3 to 8 October 1932 the Indologist Wilhelm Hauer presented six
lectures concurrently in English and German at the Psychological Club
in Zürich, entitled “Der Yoga, im besondern die Bedeutung des Cakras”
(Yoga, especially the meaning of the cakras). Following these, Jung devoted
four lectures to a psychological interpretation of Kundalini yoga.
Hauer’s English lectures, Jung’s English lectures of 12, 19,and26 October
and Jung’s German lecture of 2 November (which was translated
by Cary F. Baynes) were compiled by Mary Foote 1 from stenographic
notes taken by her secretary, Emily Köppel, and privately published in
mimeographed form under the title The Kundalini Yoga: Notes on the
Lecture Given by Prof. Dr. J. W. Hauer with Psychological Commentary by
Dr. C. G. Jung (Zurich, 1933). In her editorial preface Foote noted that
the text had been corrected by both Hauer and Jung.
A German edition edited by Linda Fierz and Toni Wolff entitled Bericht
über das Lecture von Prof. Dr. J. W. Hauer. 3–8 October (Zurich,
1933), and bearing the title Tantra Yoga on the spine, differed in content
from the English edition. In addition to a German translation of Jung’s
English lectures, it contained the text of Hauer’s German lectures, an
account of Toni Wolff’s lecture “ Tantrische Symbolik bei Goethe” (Tantric
symbolism in Goethe) given to the club on 19 March 1932, 2 and an
account of Jung’s lecture “ Westliche Parallelen zu den Tantrischen
Symbolen” (Western parallels to tantric symbols) of 7 October 1932.
Jung’s lectures were published in abridged form without annotations
in Spring: Journal of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought (1975 and
1976).
This present unabridged edition is based on the text of Mary Foote’s
first edition. Hauer’s lectures have not been reproduced, with the exception
of his final English lecture, which Jung attended and which forms
the bridge to his lectures. This particular lecture demonstrates the relation
between Hauer’s and Jung’s approaches. Where Hauer’s exposition
is referred to in Jung’s lectures, the specific context has been supplied in
a footnote.
1 For information on Mary Foote, see Edward Foote, “Who was Mary Foote,” Spring: An
Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought (1974): 256–68.
2 Her lecture, which contained interpretations of Goethe’s work through the symbolism
of Kundalini yoga, was published in full in her Studien zu C. G. Jungs Psychologie (Zurich:
Daimon, 1981), 285–318.
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