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The diplomatic intervention by a philosopher on a president shows the extraordinary consequences of unlikely meetings ...

Filmed for the BBC series Face to Face in 1959, this archival interview features Carl Jung surveying his life and extraordinarily influential career at the age of 84, just two years before his death.