It happened on JUNE 6

1961

The Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Karl G. Jung died in Küsnacht (Switzerland). He was among Freud’s first collaborators and the first president of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He gradually distanced himself from Freud due to their differing interpretations of libido. While Freud considered it the sole source of psychic energy, the true instinctual aspect, and the only behavioral drive, Jung maintained that in reality there are various forms of psychic energy in man, all of which are decisive and important as instinctual drives, and that libido is one among them without having any principal importance. Jung reassessed the presence of a historical, ancestral heredity in the human personality, conceiving the archetypes. He was extensively interested in the psychology of religion and, unlike Freud, did not consider the image of God to be a product of psychic experience or a projection of paternal experience. On the contrary, Jung thought the relationship with an earthly father could assume religious significance precisely because a model preexists, a hereditary disposition, a universal structure of divine paternity. God is therefore like an imprint left on the psyche, but Jung refrains from asserting that such an impression is produced by something ontologically real.

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On the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology


Readings on Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction
, by Gabiele Coci

Matter and Light. The New Physics (1937), by Louis de Broglie

The Meaning of Beauty in Exact Natural Science (1970), by Werner Heisenberg

Quantum Mechanics (2002), by John Polkinghorne, from INTERS 

Faith and Quantum Theory (2007), by Stephen Barr

Quantum Mechanics. Philosophical and Theological Implications (2019), by Javier Sánchez Cañizares, from INTERS


Articles of Historical Interest

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? (1935), by A. Einstein, B. Podolski, N. Rosen

On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox (1964), by J.S. Bell

Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell's Inequalities (1982), by A. Aspect, P. Grangier and G. Roger

Moreover…

Pursuing Scientific Humanism. Letters Between Werner Heisenberg and Enrico Cantore, 1967-1976, a forthcoming book edited by Claudio Tagliapietra, INTERS staff

    

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