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Gurgen4

(39 posts)
1. No offense, but...
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 03:37 AM
Apr 2012

I've always considered Carl Jung more or less a reactionary and banal fool especially when you put him beside Freud and Marx and his other contemporaries.

Here are some examples of Jung's morally and logically bankrupt ideology. Most of it is subversive, insidious and downright creepy.

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." (Makes no sense whatsoever)

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. (Huh?)

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. (Kant actually refuted this line of thaught.)

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. (Especially if you're a mass murderer, a Nazi, a boor. )

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. (Reactionary bullshit.)

No offense, but... Gurgen4 Apr 2012 #1
Interesting. I read all the quotes you posted GliderGuider Apr 2012 #2
+1 mecherosegarden Feb 2013 #10
he was speaking from a psychological prespective, not a philosophical one. Odin2005 Apr 2012 #3
easy to misinterpret Shagman May 2012 #7
The idea of synchronicity feels like an intuitive recognition of quantum entanglement. GliderGuider May 2012 #8
Yup tama Apr 2012 #4
I sort of know about jungian archetypes as they apply to the Tarot. Still Blue in PDX Apr 2012 #5
I have just discovered Jung's stuff Omniscientone May 2012 #6
fan deJong Nov 2012 #9
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