Archive Project: "Inventory description C.A. Meier legacy: files on the history of C.G. Jung's presidency of the International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy, 1933-1940".

Andreas Kilcher and Giovanni Sorge

The question of the involvement in National Socialist discourses of exclusion of the founder of analytical psychology, the Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist C.G. Jung (1875-1961) has long been the subject of debate not only among so-called Jungians, but also in the history of science and culture. Of central importance here is the study of C.G. Jung's activities in the 1930s as president of the International Association of General Practitioners of Psychotherapy (IAAGP), an umbrella organisation based in Switzerland that was intended to be non-political and neutral. Together with General Secretary C.A. Meier (1905-1995) and numerous psychotherapists from all over Europe, Jung tried from 1934 onwards to expand the association in order to create a counterweight to the German national group led by M.H. Göring, a cousin of "Field Marshal" Hermann Göring, to which the majority of the members belonged.

One of the most important sources for a detailed analysis of this problem (or of Jung's - and C.A. Meier's - activities in the IAAGP, which are usually hardly explored further in the secondary literature) are the extensive files on the management of the Society handed over by C.A. Meier to the ETH Archives. The project aims to produce a description of the holdings and an introduction to the archival holdings with a historical introduction and indexes.

This project was funded by the C. G. Jung Foundation.