On Dreams and the East: Notes of the 1933 Berlin Seminar

Jung’s landmark seminar on the symbolism of yoga and its applications to dream analysis

In the summer of 1933, C. G. Jung conducted a seminar in Berlin attended by a large audience of some 150 people, including several Jewish Jungians who would soon leave Germany. Hitler had begun consolidating his position as dictator and these students were distressed at Jung’s recent decision to accept the presidency of a German professional psychotherapy society that was rapidly becoming Nazified and pur...