I went to Paris when I was eighteen. I met a guy there – a young man, though older than I – who was generally uneducated but with a weird autodidactic streak. He had read volume after volume of Carl Gustav Jung, but had no idea that ‘Jung’ was (approximately) pronounced ‘yung,’ instead pronouncing it with a hard ‘j.’

I thought of him when I saw this article on the meaning and place of Jung in contemporary thought.

While Freud, if also dismissed and sniffed at as a pervert of limited inspiration, is at least still placed within the realm of psychology as something approximating a science.

Meanwhile, Jung is relegated to the realm of spiritualists, mystics, and comparative religion.

Of course, I’m not sure that article helped matters much, but focusing on Jung’s religious beliefs (obsessions?).