Speaking of Carl Jung

[Jed Kelestron]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:

 Given this statement of
> yours, what makes ch. 9, 12, 13,  and 14 of the Collected works "fantastic"?
> Is it the argumentation or the prose or what? I'm sincerely curious.

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It's fascinating to me how Jung takes alchemy, religious dogma, myth,
dream content, psychotic content, etc etc and asks what the creation
of this material says about the psyche that created all of it. Since
he focuses on so much arcane material the content he is explicating
and the conclusions he comes to are quite interesting to me whether I
buy it or not. I find that most of his critics (pro and con) and many
of his followers have not even read much of what he wrote. Very few
have read 9, 12, 13, and 14. Ken Wilber for one example blasts him for
committing the pre-trans fallacy, but lists only "The Essential Jung",
a small paperback in his bibliography. Alchemy alone is quite
interesting. Jung asks the question, if all of that alchemical rite,
ritual and experiment really ended up having little to do with
chemistry, what does it say about the structure of the mind that
created it. His whole psychology is based on his theory that the
writings of alchemy are projections of and are therefor a road map of
sorts for the human psyche. For me, makes for very interesting
reading.