In an article of his recently published book ("The Soul Always Thinks", vol 4. Inglés Collected Papers - "Always Think Soul, vol. 4 of the Articles in English Gathered" ), Wolfgang Giegerich writes:
"The problem arises when it is (also) inherent in the logic of psychology, namely their religious character" subjective "is taken as a license to gratify the ego in its subjectivity with all its idiosyncrasies , defects, and needs and desires. I would say that this problem is the normal state of the status of Jungian psychology. For those who become or are Jungian, psychology usually serves the purpose of self-gratification, self-indulgence. It is an ego-trip . The people who come in Jungian psychology or the archetypal are mostly attracted to her because she expect it to provide comfort to their deep discontent with the modern world, with enormous intellectual demands posed to anyone who participates in it with the abstraction of modern life, its religious and metaphysical vacuum, and secondly because it can offer meaning, a kind of belief system, ideology, and thus serve as a substitute, religion, and third this place can offer all immediately, without further ado, because they think that everyone already carries within him all the treasures you want. With regard to this belief system, one does not even have to undergo fixed articles of faith have to be studied in order to understand properly. And do not really have to believe at all, in the sense of a binding belief with practical consequences. Instead, all it requires is (a) experienced self and self experienced or (b) indulge images, myths, symbols. Ultimately all what it is experienced , as just any image, any myth. There are no criteria of truth. Not required hard work, no discipline, no understanding. Beautiful pictures and some mantras take the place of thought. An intellectual land becomes readily available cocaine meaning while you sleep (dreams!) And that the mind is awake, has in store a lot of food-fast (fast-food ) intellectual and sentimental food babies. This kind of psychology serves the emotional and ideological people. "
And in a recent e-mail in private, to my comment Jungian psychologists who do not understand Hegel or have a proper philosophical training, Giegerich responded by writing:
"Not only that Jungians have a faulty philosophical training. I also think that for the most part do not need or use thought. Jungian become precisely because they want to "experience" archetypal images and "feel" and have something to believe. So what I do is therefore unfair to them. It's like Bach or Mozart to offer someone who bought a ticket for a rock concert "
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