C. G. Jung and Paul Klee

Both Paul Klee and Carl Gustav Jung traveled to Tunisia; the former in 1914 and the latter in 1920. The landscapes and ways of life they discovered aroused decisive inner changes in both men. Here, the journals the painter and psychologist each kept of their journeys are presented and compared. Their experience of the country renewed their relationship to the past and Western civilization, as well as opening them to a world Henry Corbin described as “imaginal”, and leading to definitive choices in the orientation of both men’s research. These choices modified the creative balance henceforth documented by the development of their respective works.