Jung and the Humanities

[Paul Mackin]

On 3/27/2012 9:38 AM, Matthew Cissell wrote:
> Has anyone else ever wondered why Freud and Jung have been adopted by
> the humanities and Emil Kraeplin hasn't? Freud and Kraeplin were
> contemporaries working in a similar field, yet I'm sure most people that
> can talk Oedipus and collective unconscious know little or nothing about
> Kraeplin. Given that Kraeplin is more important for modern psychiatry,
> shouldn't people from the human sciences give up these relics?.
>
> mc otis

I thought they had. Except on TV where method is dictated by laugh needs.

When dealing with Charlie, Jane Lynch insists they talk out his mommy 
issues, but with his chiropractor brother Alan she prescribes pills, 
because she's a "real doctor."

P