C.G. Jung and German Thought

Starting from a study of the Seven Sermons to the Dead (Septem sermones ad mortuos, 1916), the present article goes into some aspects of the genesis of Jung’s thought. Collated with its sources, Jung’s thinking appears to be the integrating of opposites, the synthetizing of opposite and complementary trends : Enlightment and Romanticism, mystical and visionary theology and religious criticism. Jung’s is a dissident line of thought (lineally descended from Master Eckhart, Jacob Boehme and Nietzsche) aimed at integrating the unthought of in western civilisation.