Carl Jung was born 128 years ago today, on July 26, 1875.
He created analytic psychology. His work seems to me to be more philosophy than clinical psychology. His ideas about archetypes and collective unconscious seem more relevant and widespread year after year.
Unreformed hawkish Hoosier hillbilly Al Barger runs the still squeezin' down the psychodelic Kentucky moonshine at More Things. What with the paranoid religious visions, the Pentecostal music, visions of God and anarchy running amok and such, somebody …
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1 - Psyche
>His work seems to me to be more
>philosophy than clinical psychology.
True, though the philosophers would say his work is more about religion than philosophy.
See Philip Reiff's "The Triumph of the Therapeutic" (1965) for: "The Therapeutic as Theologian: Jungs's Psychology as a Language of Faith."
>His ideas about archetypes and >collective unconscious seem more >relevant and widespread year after year.
Jung's ideas have been increasingly irrelevant since he had them and have led to no further developments (Hillman and Bly are examples) in psychological thinking, or, more importantly, therapeutic technique and practice in the last 50+ years.
Summary of Reiff: Freud's therapetic is based on removing illusions (deconversion); Jung's is based on substituting new illusions (archetypes) and reconversion.
Also see D.W. Winnicott's review of "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" in "Psychoanalytic Explorations."
These are times when we need to face up to our endless appetite for lies and illusions, not comfort ourselves with new ones. Bion, Winnicott, Gill and Langs are the psycho-therapeutic thinkers whose work "seem more relevant and widespread year after year" though it is true psychoanalysis itself is still in a state of resistance to dynamic intersubjectivity.
2 - Eric Olsen
I guess I missed this getting ready for vacation, but I agree with Al: Jung may not be a therapist for today, but he certainly is a philosopher, and even if you don't believe literally in the collective subconscious, it is still a metapphor that explains an awful lot about mass behavior. What is the "zeitgeist" if not Jung's collective subconscious. My favorite Jungian work of literature is Conrad's "Secret Sharer."
3 - psihologie analitica Jung
great your comments,
Jung is my favorite, is more than a psychologist or philosopher but I can explain what
on my link you can see a video with Carl Jung, and some information ( still now, just in romanian languages)
thank for your post Al. Barger
4 - Jackrabbit
I feel like making a cake and putting a cigar on top.