Saturday, December 13, 2008

finding faults with Freud - of course, of course :-)

The Basic Writings of C. G. Jung

by Carl Jung

(not one of his occasional courtesies to Freud. To me, Jung is everything what Freud is not. for the latter, here is my favorite quote: "what is true in his theories is not new; what is new is not true" by whom?)

The judgement would entirely devolve upon the observer -- a certain guarantee that its basis would infallibly be imposed upon the observed. To my mind, this is the case in te psychologies both of Freud and of Adler. The individual is completely at the mercy of the arbitrary discretion of his observing critic -- which can never be the case when the conscious psychology of the observed is accepted as the basis. After all, he is the only competent judge, since he alone knows his own motives. p262 (From Psychological Types).

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