The Hidden Side of Wolfgang Pauli

Atmanspacher, Harald and Primas, Hans (1995) The Hidden Side of Wolfgang Pauli.

Abstract

Wolfgang Pauli is well recognized as an outstanding theoretical physicist,
famous for his formulation of the two-valuedness of the electron spin, for the
exclusion principle, and for his prediction of the neutrino. Less well known
is the fact that Pauli spent a lot of time in different avenues of human
experience and scholarship, ranging over fields such as the history of ideas,
philosophy, religion, alchemy, and Jung's psychology. Pauli's philosophical and
particularly his psychological background is not overt in his scientific
papers and was unknown even to many specialist scholars until a number of
enthralling and perplexing documents of a close interaction between Wolfgang
Pauli and the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung became publicly available in
recent years. Both scholars stressed the inseparability of the physical and the
psychical and called upon a sense of more openness toward the unconscious.
Decades after his death, Pauli's innovative perspective and his vision of a
wholeness of psyche and matter are more than ever before of great
relevance.