A few weeks ago I ran across this nice review of the book Atom and Archetype: the Pauli-Jung letters 1932-1958. This is a collection of letters exchanged between psychiatrist Carl Jung and physicist Wolfgang Pauli over a course of years. Evidently, Pauli was quite the metaphysician and Jung was intrigued by Einstein’s physics of relative space and time. Together in dialectic they argued and struggled to join together the disparate notions of mind and matter.
What mainly caught my eye was a diagram that I’ve slightly altered and shown above. I’ve mainly just replaced energy with matter-energy for two reasons: first because matter and energy are inter-convertible and second because matter conditions space. This results in similarity to the fourfold diagram for Lucretius that I’ve shown before, consisting of Particles, the Void, Falling, and Swerving.
Further Reading:
Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli / Atom and Archetype: the Pauli-Jung letters 1932-1958, Princeton University Press; Updated edition (July 21, 2014)
https://equivalentexchange.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/lucretius-on-the-nature-of-things/
https://equivalentexchange.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/matter-energy-space-and-time/
https://equivalentexchange.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/wave-particle-duality/
https://equivalentexchange.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/noethers-theorem/
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