THE JUNG-WHITE DIALOGUE AND WHY IT COULDN'T WORK AND WON'T GO AWAY

White's Thomism and its Aristotelian foundation were at the heart of his differences with Jung over the fifteen years of their dialogue. The paper examines the precedents and consequences of the imposition of Thomism on the Catholic Church in 1879 in order to clarify the presuppositions White carried into his dialogue with Jung. It then selects two of Jung's major letters to White to show how their dialogue influenced Jung's later substantial work, especially his Answer to Job. The dialogue with Whitecontributed to foundational elements in the senior Jung's development of his myth which simply outstripped White's theological imagination and continue to challenge the worlds of contemporary monotheistic orthodoxy in all their variants.