Jung's First Publication
When Jung was studying medicine at the University of Basel (18951899), he attended seances with a cousin who appeared to be taken over by deceased personalities who communicated through her details of their previous lives. In his dissertation, submitted to the medical faculty of the University of Zurich and published in 1902, Jung attempted to treat these seances in a scientific manner as furnishing an explanation of the as yet extremely controversial psychology of the unconscious. Jung retained a life-long interested in parapsychology, the discipline concerned with investigating events and knowledge that cannot be accounted for by scientific evidence.
When Jung was studying medicine at the University of Basel (18951899), he attended seances with a cousin who appeared to be taken over by deceased personalities who communicated through her details of their previous lives. In his dissertation, submitted to the medical faculty of the University of Zurich and published in 1902, Jung attempted to treat these seances in a scientific manner as furnishing an explanation of the as yet extremely controversial psychology of the unconscious. Jung retained a life-long interested in parapsychology, the discipline concerned with investigating events and knowledge that cannot be accounted for by scientific evidence.