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Voltaire Is My Hero,

Mine, too!

In Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Jung explains his break with Freud as having to do with Freud's insistance on sexual causes of neuroses as the only causes of neuroses. There are other causes including the lack of ritual and rite for life passages in modern society. There are also human fears that are historically common among the races, but are not addressed adequately in most current therapies.


Archetypes, as Jung carefully explains them, are not bunk; they are dispositions toward common human experiences and are valid in interpreting the mental content of any human being. I just saw a net picture of a figurine that is 25,000 years old. It was an image of a woman, expressing fertility in its exaggerated portrayal of breasts, etc.


Jung's attempts to demystify our ancestral art and thought have, unfortunately, become interpreted as the very mystism he sought to expain. This may be because of his comments on everything from the I-Ching to UFO's.


Jung will outlive his critics simply because he sought psychoanalysis that could consider multiple causes for neuroses.

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