Fodor reports that in 1925 he received a typewritten copy of a strange publication by Jung, entitled Seven Sermons to the Dead. Written in 1918, it revealed Jung's views on life after death and his communications with the dead. Jung stated: 'quite early I learned that it was necessary for me to instruct the figures of the unconscious or that other group which is so often indistinguishable from them, the spirits of the departed'. In 1911 Jung had had a dream of distinguished spirits from an earlier century. This was before he wrote The Psychology of the Unconscious.

The Seven Sermons to the Dead is associated by Fodor to the break between Jung and Freud. Jung wrote: 'when I had parted from Freud I knew that I was plunging into the unknown, beyond Freud; after all, I knew nothing, but I had taken the step into darkness'. Fodor states that this break had the effect on Jung of a full-blown psychosis; at the time he had a dream in which he was told 'if you do not understand this dream you must shoot yourself'.