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The Pauli Effect

Anecdote

The joking observation that laboratory equipment would mysteriously fail in Wolfgang Pauli's presence. Physicists treated it as a curse, not a theory.

Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters

C. G. Jung and Wolfgang Pauli

The letters between Jung and the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who kept returning to the idea that psyche and matter might not be fully separate.

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

C. G. Jung

Jung's 1952 essay, the text that named the idea. He argues that meaning can connect an inner event and an outer one even when no cause links them.

Wolfgang Pauli

A Nobel physicist who took synchronicity seriously enough to co-author a book with Jung and to keep arguing about it until his death.