Evola deals with Jung in “Maschera e Volto dello Spiritualismo Contemporaneo” and demonstrates his understanding of Jung. In confounding a true spiritual change with psychological change, Jung is “even more dangerous than Freud because of his being more subtle and spiritual”.
Jung referred to Evola’s “Hermetic Tradition” favourably in his work on Alchemy. As a scientist, Jung denied that the Archetypes were equivalent to Platonic ideas. Serrano forgot to mention the Self archetype which Jung links to “Christ” and integrates all the “polytheist” gods in a higher unity. Now it is certainly possible that Jung’s true viewpoint is not reflected in his “scientific” works, something he implies in his autobiography.
Serrano was “politicized” as a youth as he mentions even if he chose not to make that explicit in his earlier writings. Serrano rejects Guenon and with him the entire project of “Traditionalsim”. To try to take Evola without his Traditional roots can only result in misunderstanding. That is why Serrano does not understand Evola’s critique of some aspects of neo-paganism, nor of “spiritual races”. Apparently Serrano does not consider Evola – a son of “Southern Italy” – to be properly of Aryan blood.
From: evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com [mailto:evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Evola
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 5:03 AM
To: evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [evola_as_he_is] Re: Serrano and Evola
This is a very good point, which will be included in the critical examination we intend to present of the paragraphs of 'Adolf Hitler : The Last Avatar' dealing with J. Evola's work, when we are able to offer an English translation of the whole corpus.
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> "The Hermetic Circle" is a juvenile work by a not yet politicized Serrano, but as far as I remember, C.G. Jung does not reveal unusual aspects in these conversations. The sentence of Evola, if authentic, sounds strange. Must we think that before he knew Jung mostly by hearsay? Impossible: he quoted the Jung's introduction to "Das Geheimnis der goldenen Blüte", "Psychologie und Alchemie", "Die Beziehungen zwischen dem Ich und dem Unbewussten" and the work with K. Kereny, "Einführung in das Wesen der Mythologie".
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> Coming back to 'Adolf Hitler : The Last Avatar', the following excerpt is worth quoting because of the reference it contains to a comment that was made by the Italian author to M. Serrano a few months before he died : "Evola was very anti-Jungian, being opposed to psychoanalysis which he considered to be Jewish. (A position with which I agree completely). As a letter of introduction I sent him from Vienna my book translated into German, "Meine Begegnungen mit C.G. Jung und Hermann Hesse," title that the Swiss publisher gave to "The Hermetic Circle." In it I refer, as is known, to my conversations with professor Jung and Hermann Hesse. Evola received me saying: "I read your book. In truth I am ignorant of those aspects of Jung you reveal." And he went on to recommend the magnificent Tantric work "The Metaphysics of Sex."
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