C.G. Jung's First Patient: On the Seminal Emergence of Jung's Thought

The author examines the 1902 thesis: On the Psychology and the Pathology of so-called Occult Phenomena. He demonstrates that, for Jung, this text is the focus of intense conflict between the attraction he feels for his medium, his cousin Helen Presiwerk, and his refusal to recognize that the attraction exists. W. B. Goodhearth, in his conclusion, emphasizes that this defensive maneuver, which obviously underpins the thesis work, is nonetheless the source of “the simultaneously fertile and enlightening idea of the autonomous psyche”.