/lit/ - Literature

>>16645187
>Isn't psychologizing religion just crypto-atheism?
Lol he's answered this retroactively in a letter: "I found it exceedingly odd that you should amiably take me for an atheist."

>Dear Colleague, 1 June 1933

>Many thanks for kindly confirming my expectations. You are, of course, quite right: I have not yet given up struggling for a philosophy of life and I very definitely hope that this struggle will not come to an end too soon, for I cannot see that possessing the absolute truth is a state in any way to be envied. I would therefore rather not make any specific prognoses about the future, since the modest share of the light of knowledge that has been vouchsafed me does not enable me to see whither and to what goals the tortuous paths of fate are wending.

>Theology and the Church do not embarrass me in the least. On the contrary, I am indebted to both for extraordinarily valuable insights. It was kind of you to recommend Martensen’s Jacob Bohme’s Leben und Autorenschaft. Bohme’s writings have long been familiar to me. As you have observed, I am also well aware of the difference between myth and revelation, having concerned myself solely with myths and never with revealed truths. Hence I found it exceedingly odd that you should amiably take me for an atheist.

>You must surely have noticed that my principal concern is psychology and not theology. So when I treat of the concept of God I am referring exclusively to its psychology and not to its hypostasis. I have voiced this scientifically necessary epistemological proviso many times in my writings. I must also confess that I have never yet been taken for an atheist by my readers, because for educated people today the principles of the theory of knowledge have already become pretty much part of their flesh and blood. Certainly in Kant’s time there were still a few theologians who cherished the regrettable error that Kant was an atheist, but even then there was a bigger educated public who were capable of distinguishing between criticism of the concept of God and belief in God.

>I think you do me an injustice when you hold the view that I have not mastered even the elements of gnoseology. If you would submit the epistemological statements in my Psychological Types to a well-disposed examination, you could clearly discern my philosophical position. You would also see that nothing is further from my mind than to deny the contents of religious experience.

>With collegial regards,
>Yours sincerely,
>C.G. Jung

>>16334394
Reminder that Jung was literally a Chad.

>>16320775
>Is Freudian thought applicable to non-semites?
No. This was Jung's chief criticism:

>A collective attitude naturally presupposes this same collective psyche in others. Thus it is a quite unpardonable mistake to accept the conclusions of a Jewish psychology as generally valid. Nobody would dream of taking Chinese or Indian psychology as binding upon ourselves. The cheap accusation of anti-Semitism that has been levelled at me on the ground of this criticism is about as intelligent as accusing me of an anti-Chinese prejudice. No doubt, on an earlier of of psychic development, where it is still impossible to distinguish between an Aryan, Semitic, Hamitic, Mongolian mentality, all human races have a common collective psyche. But with the beginning of racial differentiation essential differences are developed in the collective psyche as well. For this reason we cannot transplant the spirit of a foreign race in globo into our own mentality without sensible injury to the latter, a fact which does not, however, deter sundry natures of feeble instinct from affecting Indian philosophy and the like.

>>16260195
More like she-man and her symbols

>reading Man and His Symbols
>decide to interpret my next dream
>dream happens as follows:
I drive my Tacoma to the park I lost my virginity in. Other guys are there working on their cars, it's the Kenosha Kid (he never did) and the guys he shot. We're all having a good time, one of them gives the Kenosha Kid a cigarette and it's obvious he's never did them before. I've gotta grease my u joints because the clutch is squeaking. My ex gf shows up and starts playing MvC 2. I go over and play the game with her, and it turns out she's become a streamer who's very sexualized.

Pretty sure I'm supposed to go grease my u joints, because I got busy and forgot to do that.