In Defense of Carl Jung: Beyond Scientific Dogma
A century ago, the philosopher Simone Weil admonished against this fragmentation of the problem of reality into parochial questions addressed by disjointed scientific disciplines — “villages” of thought, she called them — each too blinded by its own axioms to make headway on illuminating the whole. “The villagers seldom leave the village,” she wrot... See more
Maria Popova • The Great Blind Spot of Science and the Art of Asking the Complex Question the Only Answer to Which Is Life
Il s’attaque aussi à la vision scientiste, héritée du xixe siècle et encore très largement répandue, dont Freud est un parfait représentant, selon laquelle les théories scientifiques communément admises présentent une vision parfaitement objective et définitive du réel. En cela Jung est très en avance sur son temps.
Frédéric Lenoir • Jung, un voyage vers soi (French Edition)
Jung once observed that each therapist must ask the question: What task is this person's neurosis helping him or her avoid?
James Hollis • Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives
humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others.
Maria Popova • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
Carl Jung, one of the most prolific psychotherapists of the 20th century, remarked that about a third of his cases were suffering from “no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.”