Jung often called himself a phenomenologist, meaning that he saw himself as simply describing—not explaining—the facts (phenomena) of psychological experience. The classical phenomenological psychologists (Binswanger and Boss) dismissed this claim as naïve, lumping Jung together with Freud as nineteenth-century scientists. They were right that Jung never learned to speak the language of the philosophical school of phenomenology, but a careful reading of the Collected Works reveals a very genuine—if inconsistent—phenomenological perspective. Jung was guided by insights very close to those articulated by Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. Not being