Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "criti...cal reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psycholo...gy, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To Freud, the unconscious was primarily regressive; when Jung challenged this view, it seemed to Freud that Jung was in flight fro...m accepting the concept of the unconscious at all. But it could just as well be said that Jung simply had a different conception of the unconscious; Jung had more appreciation of the creative potentials of the unconscious, and saw in the unknown at least as much of life forces as of death forces. The difference in Freud's and Jung's views of the unconscious is reflected in their contrasting attitudes toward fantasy. Freud had felt that he could "lay it down that a happy person never phantasizes, only an unsatisfied one." Jung, on the other hand, wrote: "I have no small opinion of fantasy. To me, it is the maternally creative side of the masculine man ... As Schiller says, man is completely human only when he is at play."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The extrovert and introvert, the realist and idealist, the scientist and philosopher, the man who found himself by refinding his l...ife history and the individual who discovered his being in fantasy, these are the differences between Freud and Jung.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by rea...l deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As Anna Freud remarked, the toddler who wanders off into some other aisle, feels lost, and screams anxiously for his mother never ...says "I got lost," but accusingly says "You lost me!" It is a rare mother who agrees that she lost him! she expects her child to stay with her; in her experience it is the child who has lost track of the mother, while in the child's experience it is the mother who has lost track of him. Each view is entirely correct from the perspective of the individual who holds it .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while t...here is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unlike Freud, Jung did not believe that a dream is a mask for a meaning already known but deceitfully withheld from the conscious ...mind. In his view, dreams were communication, ideas expressed not always straightforwardly, but in the best way possible within the limits of the medium. Dreaming, in Jung's psychology, is a constructive process.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »