C. G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships Book

In the course of endeavoring to read everything by or about C.G. Jung I came upon this much-reprinted book. Since I liked Hesse as well, it was a sure sell.

What I didn't know at the time, but got some sense of by reading this thing, was that its author, Serrano, was crazier than most of the Nazi race theorists he so admired. At least they formulated their ideas in the early years of the last century when such speculations were current. Serrano not only held them but elaborated upon them until his death a couple of years ago. He also bought into flood myths, extraterrestrial influence theories, the notion of a world-wide Jewish conspiracy and...the archetype theory of C.G. Jung.

One prays that neither Hesse nor Jung knew whom they were being politely responsive to when they entertained Serrano. Both were old and Jung at least was all for pushing his ideas wherever he could. Influence on a prominent Chilean would have been attractive (although what Serrano's prominence says about Chile isn't attractive).

This all said, there is a bit of material here which was original at the time of publication and which may be of interest to those who like Jung or Hesse. Whether or not someone who could seriously believe that Hitler was alive in Antarctica is believable about anything is, however, open to debate...