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Zürich,
19.7.1922
… As for the anagogics you think you can detect in my other potboiler, I am completely innocent of the charge. What matter to analysis are catagogics. I have completely finished with the Jungian manner. Those high-falutin interpretations
which proclaim every kind of muck to be spiritual jam of a high order and try to smuggle a minor Apollo or Christ into every corked-up little mind simply will not do. It is Hegelianism transferred to psychology; everything that is must be reasonable. If only that theory were true!
But education is quite different, it definitely must have an ethical meaning. You yourself used to insist that children have to be educated. And, when analysis is over and done with, the little beasts and angels with whom we have to deal have to be filled with honourable intentions. Not that one should blow upon them with the breath of the spirit and blow one's soul into them; but they must have a bit of mental and social hygiene and practise it with healthy love. But analysis as such must take all witch's brews seriously, adorn the devil with no fig leaves, and do full justice to the parable of the tares among the wheat….