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The Zofingia Lectures (1896-1899) book (based on Lectures) introduction by M.-L. von Franz out of print 1983 (de: 1983) ISBN: 0-7100-9947-9 Links:

Although I believe that Jung himself would not have cared to publish these juvenalia, they are highly interesting, readable, and important. They are lectures he gave to his fellow students at Basel University when he was between twenty-one and twenty-three years of age. On the 18th of May 1895 he had joined the Basel section of the color-wearing fraternity "Zofingia," in which it was a tradition for members to give, from time to time, lectures about their special fields of interest. The lectures were supposed to meet a high scientific standard and at the same time to express political and other opinions in an outspoken manner befitting a closed circle whose members felt free of academic and social conventions. The reader has to bear this in mind when reading the often sarcastic and strong language that the young medical candidate, C. G. Jung, used in expressing his convictions. -- from the Introduction by M.-L. von Franz Marie-Louise von Franz goes on to discuss briefly each of the five lectures: The Border Zones of Exact Science (November 1896) Some Thoughts on Psychology (May 1897) Inaugural Address as Chair of Zofingia Club (Winter Semester 1897/8) Thoughts on the Nature and Value of Speculative Inquiry (Summer Semester 1898) Thoughts on the Interpretation of Christianity, with Reference to the Theory of Albrecht Ritschl (January 1899)

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