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He starts by stressing the inevitability of subjectivity in every attempt to be objective. He then goes on to contrast Gnosis and Christianity, which he compares with thinking and feeling. He elaborates with a description of Tertullian and the sacrificium intellectus that he made to become a Christian. Origen, an Alexandrian, went the opposite way with his sacrificium phalli, which led him from the feeling position to the thinking position. Here Jung interjects that psychology is now the mediator that can unite the idea and the thing without doing violence to either. Abélard presaged this with his nominalism versus realism. Extraversion and introversion Jung sees united by phantasy.…
… One should perhaps mention here that Jung said his development of his type concepts were the result of his continuing effort to understand what went wrong between him and Freud. I should also like to interject here my version of ‘like father like son’. Research has shown that in two Jungian groups (vide paper by Doctor Katherine Bradway in this Journal, Vol. 9, 1964, pp. 129-35), approximately 90 per cent of the members are intuitive and 86 per cent introverted. Though I lack documentation, my long-term, extensive contacts with Freudian groups convinces me that they would rate equally high in sensation and extraversion.…
Jung repeatedly emphasizes creative phantasy (later to be called active imagination), as the reconciler of opposites. He goes on to say that consciousness cannot reconcile the opposites as it has no symbolic content. This is why it falls to the unconscious, the source of the creative phantasy, to reconcile the conflict. This mediation process Jung calls the transcendent function.…
In discussing the conflict between the Apollinian and Dionysian philosophies, he refers to a fact that has often struck me, namely, that from the central personal problem of psychologists there usually emerges their magnum opus. The men in my mind are Jung, Freud, Adler, Sullivan and Erikson.…