The C. G. Jung-Jolande Jacobi Correspondence.
The mission of the Board of Directors of the Philemon Foundation is to complete the works of C. G. Jung: correspondences, letters, and lectures that have come to light and remain unpublished. We are pleased to announce two new publications due in 2025: On Dreams and the East: Notes of the 1933 Berlin Seminar—C. G. Jung and Heinrich Zimmer, edited by Giovanni Sorge, and translated by John Peck and Mark Kyburz, and Jung’s Life and Work: Interviews for Memories, Dreams, Reflections with Aniela Jaffé, edited by Sonu Shamdasani, with Thomas Fischer as a consulting editor, translated by Heather McCartney and John Peck.
We are also excited to announce our new fundraising project:
The C. G. Jung-Jolande Jacobi Correspondence.
Jolande Jacobi was one of Jung’s most prominent women followers, who played a prominent role in disseminating his work, and establishing analytical psychology. Her correspondence with him, spanning decades, is one of his major correspondences. She was born Jolande Székács in Budapest in 1890. She married Andor Jacobi in 1909. Following the communist seizure of power, they moved to Vienna. In 1926, she became involved in the Kulturbund, becoming its executive vice-president. This placed her at the centre of Viennese cultural life. She met Jung in 1927, when he lectured there. In the early thirties, she converted from Judaism to Catholicism. After Hitler came to power, she wrote to Jung asking to train as an analyst. He agreed to this, on condition that she first did a doctorate. In 1934, she enrolled at the University of Vienna to study psychology with Charlotte and Karl Bühler, completing a doctorate in 1938 on the psychology of the change of life. In 1944, her husband died en route to a concentration camp. In Zurich, she played a leading role in the founding of the C. G. Jung Institute in 1945.
Her works in English include: The Psychology of Jung (1942), Complex, Archetype and Symbol (1957), The Way of Individuation (1967), and Masks of the Soul (1971). She edited Paracelsus: Selected Writings (1951) as well as Psychological Reflections: An Anthology of the Works of C. G. Jung (1953). Jung wrote prefaces for her first two books as well as her Paracelsus volume.
The volume will be edited by Véronique Liard, Emeritus Professor at the Université de Bourgogne, Dijon. She is the author of Carl Gustav Jung Kulturphilosoph, and the translator of numerous works by Jung and Neumann into French, including the Jung-Neumann correspondence, and Neumann’s Origin and History of Consciousness.
The Foundation is seeking to raise $125,000 by the end of 2026 to undertake this project.
The Philemon Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization: we receive no royalties for publications in the Philemon Series and therefore are entirely dependent on donations from individuals who are willing to support our vision. No contribution is too small: a wide number of donors helps us to maintain our 501(c)3 status as a public charitable foundation.
All of our work is dependent on our ability to raise the funds necessary to support the scholarship for which the Philemon Foundation publications are renowned and to maintain the editorial and administrative infrastructure which supports the editing and translating of the works. In order to do this, we are dependent on the generosity of our donors and hope that you and any organizations with which you are affiliated might be able to send us your donations and disseminate this appeal to enable our work to continue.
For our supporters in the USA, all donations are tax deductible. We are also happy to enter into dedicated funding arrangements for the support of particular publication projects.
⤷ As a donor, you are entitled to purchase books in the Philemon Series at a full author’s discount plus postage (to place an order, please email Christopher Rodrigues at info@philemonfoundation.org)—terms and conditions apply. You will also be entitled to attend exclusive webinars for donors. We will be needing to raise this minimum donation fee to $125 beginning in 2025 in order better cover costs.
You can donate here. Alternatively, please feel free to contact Caterina Vezzoli, President. For more information regarding prospective editorial projects, contact Sonu Shamdasani, General Editor.
