What is Basel?

This is one of the most important locations in the early part of the book because it the name of the town nearest to where Jung was born and raised. It is located in Germany.

Basel had a university. Not only that, but it was among the less expensive forms of higher education available. The generation or so before Carl Jung was there as a student, the philosopher Nietzsche had been a professor there. Apparently people were rather critical of him, only more so when they knew him personally.