In Defense of Carl Jung: Beyond Scientific Dogma

The real tension between depth psychology and Christianity is that whereas theology idealises the Christ figure as the sole agent of redemption, psychology argues that every man and woman must realise this new wholeness in his or her own way.

We live in a world where psychotherapy has become a yardstick by which everything else is judged—in some circles at least—but the Nyi-da Mélong is not open to such evaluation by practitioners.

Karl Jaspers says so and lists five reasons why this going into the underworld and talking with figures and listening to voices, and doing what Jung did, is demonic, it’s non-Christian.

In spite of all, however, psychoanalysis has a definite and valuable contribution for students of religion in our time. I say “in our time” because psychoanalysis is essentially a modern remedy for a modern ill; it exists for that period in human history for which the unconscious is a problem, and a problem it has been since man began to imagine th