It was not until 1983 that Jung's first texts were published in London as The Zofingia Lectures. Not translated into French, The Zofingia Lectures are still not available to the French-speaking public. This delay is due to an oversight: tucked away in a drawer, these texts were only discovered after Jung's death. There are five lectures that were given between 28 November 1896 and 7 January 1899. Although written when young – Carl was twenty-one when he delivered the first lecture – they are worthy of interest. These lectures outline the major aspects of his subsequent work and reveal what we can call Carl's psychic wound and the tremendous energy that he drew on to survive.

However, without reading between the lines and without subjecting Jung to psychoanalytical interpretations, the author attempts to link the dynamics of these first works to certain autobiographical or epistolary confidences. This wound or Carl's father complex and the resulting deprivation are clearly mapped out here.