Miller enthusiastically joins in the debate. He is eager to remind twenty-first-century readers that \u201cJung, Pauli and their contemporaries considered Jung\u2019s research to be quite as important as Pauli\u2019s work in physics\u201d\u009d, and certainly seems to be more than open-minded on that point himself. Pauli was intrigued to find, on consulting a scholar of Jewish mysticism, that the word Kabbalah, written as numbers in Hebrew, adds up to 137. Miller agrees that this is \u201can extraordinary link between mysticism and physics\u201d\u009d. Neither does he question Jung\u2019s accounts of Pauli\u2019s dreams: a more rational explanation of the images that successively appear in them might be that Pauli\u2019s increasing preoccupation with Jung\u2019s theories while waking caused him to rehearse versions of them in his sleep. Miller also seems surprisingly little interested in the relationship between Pauli and his parents. Pauli\u2019s mother poisoned herself when his father left her for another woman, but Pauli\u2019s psychological problems clearly date from before this traumatic event, which did not occur until he was twenty-seven.<\/p>\n
Miller himself originally trained as a physicist before developing an interest in the history and philosophy of science. His ability to approach his subject from the perspective of both the sciences and the humanities is a great strength. My sympathies, however, lie with Pauli\u2019s loving second wife Franca, who did at least as much as Jung to make him a more or less civilized member of society, and who spent the three decades she survived him trying to delay publication of his correspondence with Jung, in case it damaged his image as a serious scientist.<\/p>\n