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Opinion on Carl Jung? (lemmygrad.ml)

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All I remember is he comes after Freud, some of his followers are annoying, there’s a Marxist podcast that likes him called ‘the return of the repressed,’ and I don’t think Lukacs liked him.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All I know about Carl Jung is that he features in every piece of pop-psych "connect with the energy" nonsense published or printed in the past several decades. The instant I hear his name in any conversation or read it in any article, my eyes start to glaze over.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

From the little I've read of his work, Jung attempted to weld a kind of mental science to his fixation with animal mysticism. I think that produced something of an esoteric fantasy view of the world that feels romantic to some people, similar to our fascination with ancient mythologies. I think the modernish pop-psych stuff is an attempt to export those vibes as some kind of product.