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...ebullient state of Dr. Jung's own psyche is a striking argument for the soundness of his ideas. He is a massive 7 6-year-old man, who seems to row himself joyfully about his home in suburban Küsnacht with large, oarlike hands. He lives a happy domestic life with his wife, who is a practicing psychiatrist; they have 19 grandchildren. He speaks English with an American accent and vocabulary, explaining that he considers American English more emotional and directly influenced by the unconscious mind than English English is. His white hair usually looks as though...
...moment, the work consists of a three-volume treatise on alchemy-part of a veritable library of esoteric and clinical literature which Jung hopes to leave behind as his testament to humanity. This may seem a somewhat bizarre occupation for a psychiatrist. But Jung explains that alchemy is one of those fantastic areas in which the mind has expressed itself unconsciously-a world of mysterious symbolism which can be interpreted psychologically, just as dreams are. There are times when Dr. Jung actually seems to resemble a sorcerer rather than a psychiatrist. He loves to sprinkle his writing with scholastic terms...
...does one reduce the idea of God and the Devil to scientific terms? In Jung's view, they are manifestations of age-old archetypes present in the more obscure layers of the human mind since the earliest times. Jung's discovery of these archetypes dates from before 1912 when, as an associate of Freud, he noted that myths, fairy tales and religious visions were similar in many ways to dreams, and could, like dreams, be interpreted as emanations from the unconscious mind. Jung also noted that the myths and religious symbols of widely differing peoples and epochs...
...religious, esthetic and anthropological ramifications of Jung's ideas have tinged an astounding amount of contemporary thinking. Religious men, ranging from Hindu yogis to Christian theologians, have studied Jung, though the latter have found his dream world of primordial archetypes to be a pagan rather than a strictly Christian one. Orthodox Freudians have denounced his ideas as pure mysticism. Artists, poets and dancers have found in them a new vein of poetic inspiration...
...Jung himself is inclined to agree with both his admirers and his critics. His own conception of religion is so eclectic, that it embraces everything from Catholicism to Hinduism, Taoism and Zen Buddhism, and finds truth of some sort in nearly every form of dogma and ritual. "His principal weakness, aside from overeating," a close associate recently remarked, "is his habit of seeing all points of view and agreeing with practically everybody." "The idea an an all powerful being," says Jung himself, "is present everywhere, if not consciously recognized, then unconsciously accepted...I consider it wiser to recognize the idea...