Screen LibraryDeciphering the cosmic number：the strange friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung
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W.W. Norton,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxv, 336 p., [8] p. of plates: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780393065329 (hardcover) 0393065324 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | O4 |
| CLC: | O4-02 |
| Call Number: | O4-02/M647 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-320) and index. 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 most fascinating yet the darkest hunting ground of our times." Both were obsessed with the far-reaching significance of the number "137"--a primal number that seemed to hint at t |