My late father hated Carl Jung. Should I shun him for ever too?

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My late father hated Carl Jung. Should I shun him for ever too?
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I have started listening to a Jungian podcast full of fascinating conversations and dream analysis. But I can hear my dad turning in his grave, writes Zoe Williams

I have started listening to a Jungian podcast full of fascinating conversations and dream analysis. But I can hear my dad turning in his gravey dad was a criminologist, but he self-identified as a behavioural psychologist. I only ever knew two things about behaviourism.

Honestly, in the entire time I knew my dad, he was open-minded, curious and experimental about almost everything except bloody Jung. It was a mixture of scorn and fear, like the child of a laudanum addict swearing you off opioids. The boundaries were immense. “I had a dream about a tunnel …” “Save it forDo you ever think X’s peculiarities might be to do with her father’s experiences of the first world war?” “Snort. Shitting Jung might think that.

They’re not psychoanalysing people on This Jungian Life; it’s just three Jungians shooting the breeze, explaining the difference between eros, sex and love, or talking about friendship. It’s honestly no more controversial than two centrist bros talking about what they’d have done differently in the Good Friday agreement, unless by “controversial” you mean “interesting”, in which case, yes, it is a lot more controversial.

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