Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, The Sixties, and Beyond

[Peter Lemkin]

Thanks for linking this Ron. It was indeed interesting. But I have one slight bitch about it and that regards the misrepresentation of Jung in the piece. But that has long been part of conspiracy literature so I’m not particularly surprised by it anymore.

For example, Jung didn’t work in Berlin up to 1942. He couldn’t as he was on an SS liquidation list. The misundertanding arises from the fact that he was the President of the Berlin headquartered General Medical Council for Psychotherapy but that was a professional position held for many years prior to WWII - as he had many Jungian Analysts in Germany who’s safety he increasingly feared for. It is laughable to say he was a mysoginist. On the contrary he very much enjoyed the company of ladies, and they him (the so called Jungfrau).

I also have never read anything by him that was in any way negative about the Jewish race (and I have read and own his Collected Works and probably another 50-60 books on Jungian psychology besides). Indeed, the man he nominated to take over from him after his retirement, Erich Neumann, was Jewish. Sadly Neumann died early and so Marie-Louise von Franz became the flame-bearer.

Jung’s association with Dulles is correct. Dulles visited him a number of times when he (Dulles) was stationed as head of OSS in Berne during the war (and Jung wrote one letter to Dulles in 1945 on the subject of Allied propaganda). Jung was greatly concerned with the ease in which the German Collective psyche leapt into, rather than fell into, the Hitler pit. His essay on Schickelgruber (Hitler) remains a classic on the dangers of the Shadow.

Sorry for rant. I am a fan as you can see and have read this nonsense for years. It’s time to put the record straight in regard to the Nazis.

David, can you point me to this Jung essay on Herr Schickelguber?....Danke!