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“I say Jung Man, there’s a place you can go”

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar’s gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throught the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul.

Carl Jung

The first line is true, the last line is false – everything in between is poetry

3 replies on ““I say Jung Man, there’s a place you can go””

everything in between is poetry

you mean this?

He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar’s gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throught the world.

Nah, Tom, it’s rhetoric.

Maddening guy, for the reason you spot: good, even breathtaking bits floating in blancmange. Tried ‘Psychological Types’?

Q for Jungians: why are all the various patients’ dream-drawings in ‘Memoirs Dreams and Reflections’ recognisably by the same hand?

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