“An Inner Comprehension of the Pueblo Indian’s Point of View”: Carl Gustav Jung’s 1925 Visit to Taos, New Mexico

• Published in: Text matters (Łódź) Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 178 - 189
• Main Author: Maszewski, Zbigniew
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lódz De Gruyter Open 01.11.2015; University of Łódź; Lodz University Press
• Subjects: 20th century; Aesthetics; American literature; Archetypes; Cartoons; Cather, Willa (1873-1947); Comprehension; Consciousness; Cultural identity; Emotions; Epistemology; Essays; Faulkner, William (1897-1962); Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Humor; Intercultural communication; Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961); Literary criticism; Mental depression; Native North Americans; Native peoples; Philosophy; Psychiatry; Reading; Subcultures; Travel; New Mexico; United States > US

Carl Jung paid a short visit to Taos, New Mexico, in January 1925. A brief account of his stay at the Pueblo appeared in Memories, Dreams, Reflections, edited by Aniela Jaffe in 1963. Remembering his conversations with Mountain Lake (Antonio Mirabal), Jung wrote of the confrontation between the “Eur...