Jung
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meta-create_date; 19 August 1995 As far as I can see, a crank, maybe even a kook. Why so influential?
- See also:
- Freud, and Psychoanalysis in General
- Mircea Eliade
- Myths and Mythology
- Universal Images
- Joseph Campbell
- Recommended:
- Edward Glover, Freud or Jung [Well, sort of a recommendation. Glover is a deeply-dyed Freudian, and is at some pains to flaunt his colors; but just divide through for that. The chapter on Jung's politics, in particular, repays attention.]
- Don McGowan, What Is Wrong with Jung? [Pedestrian writing; does try to be fair and sort out the useful bits from the trash; does not explore sources or influence in any detail. Occasional inaccuracies about thermodynamics, which are inconsequential. Overall, damning if dull.]
- Richard Noll [Yet more on Jung's sources (crankish and/or
nonsensical, and uniformly reactionary), doctrines (ditto), followers (the most
charitable description is "easily led") and methods (bankrupt), including just
what you have to pay to become completely "individuated" (cf. "clear" in
Scientology, which at least has a more vivid mythology). This is simply
appalling: and the complete text, in The Jung Cult, where he
announces his deification is absolutely unbelievable.
(Yes, deification.)]
- The Jung Cult
- The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Jung
- To read:
- Robert Ellwood, The Politics of Myth: A Study of C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell