Theory Group Seminar, 06 May 2009
Arthur Miller, University College London
The Strange Friendship of Pauli and Jung: When Physics Met Psychology
abstract
At a key time in his scientific development, Pauli was undergoing analysis by Jung. What can we learn about Pauli's discoveries of the exclusion principle and the CPT theorem, as well as his thoughts on non-conservation of parity from Jung’s analysis of his dreams? A very different Pauli emerges, one at odds with esteemed colleagues such as Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.