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APPENDIX 2
JUNG’S COMMENTS IN HAUER’S
GERMAN LECTURES
5October 1932
Dr. Jung wants to make some remarks on meditation technique: the process
of meditation has a clear parallel in psychological analysis, though
with the difference that Professor Hauer gives us a completed conceptual
framework, seen from above, as if floating in ether. If we place it on
a foundation which, to begin with, we possess through our own experience,
it will become more readily understandable. To be sure, it is
difficult to compare the somber, earthbound figures of our unconscious
with the Indian representation. To meditate on the cakras we first have
to extricate the original experience; hence we cannot adopt the readymade
figures of yoga, and the question still remains whether our experiences
fit into the tantric forms altogether. It all thereby depends on
whether we possess this matter which India already has. That is why we
have to come up with our own methods which can familiarize us with
corresponding contents.
Ten or fifteen years ago, when patients brought me the first “mandalas,”
I did not yet know anything about tantra yoga. At this time Indologists
were not familiar with it either—or, whenever it became known, it
was scorned not only by the Europeans but also by wide sections of the
Indian population. Its seeming oddity was only sniffed at. But we have to
forget this sniffing at it now.
It is a fact that with us these things come individually and immediately
out of the earth, but as small, ridiculous beginnings which we find hard
to take seriously.
Example: we are dealing with a (female) patient with whom, after six
years of sporadic analysis, I had finally, if very hesitatingly, to take the
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