![]() Let us turn to the general situation in the West. This persona-kindness is actually just a derivation of Christian sentimentality, a problem to which I will return later. It is an escape that serves to avoid finding out and adequately expressing one’s true feelings, which are not always kind and all-bearing, and an escape from ongoing frictions and collisions of feeling. Naturally the false kindness and all-bearing friendliness, which certain analysts show to their patients, following the model of the general practitioner’s persona style, is just as wrong. It should never be used for the feeling relationship, which builds up in the course of the encounter in therapy. Therefore we might conclude that the word “transference” should only be used in an intentional way to address some illusory projections on the side of the patient or the doctor. “Uniqueness” lies simply and solely in the relationship between individuated persons who have no other relationships at all except individual, i.e., unique ones. “Transference” consists in the illusion of its uniqueness, when seen Pom the collective and conventional standpoint. The so-called dissolution of the transference often consists in ceasing to describe the nature of one’s relationship as “transference.” This designation degrades the relationship as a mere projection, which it is not. He met every patient with his own personal feeling reactions, positive and negative, making the analytic hours a “personal encounter” and not a “treatment.” The fashion in some Jungian circles of developing technical means of approaching a patient, such as having to discuss the transference and countertransfer-ence, is nothing but a regression into pre-Jungian modes of thought. Jung broke up the white-coat-distance, in which the doctor treats his patient as if he were an impersonal object. Because he refused to join in with such erroneous views, Jung was accused of being “unscientific,” while, in fact, it is just the other way around. All mathematical procedures in science do this. Thus we construct by our thinking function a model of reality and then mix it up illegitimately with reality itself. In a heap of stones the average stone may weigh one kilo, but we might not find in actuality one single stone which weighs exactly one kilo! But Jung pointed out that the results of statistics represent a thinking or mental abstraction and not reality as it is. But, these terrifying facts are known, and I want therefore to turn to more immediate manifestations of the problem.įirst in our own field, psychology, the statistical methods of the natural sciences have conquered the field at the universities. ![]() In ways that accustom them to saying: “In an atomic war we will lose, say, 60 million people that means that we can still survive with 85 million-so we could risk it!” They must do that it’s their job but they do not even seem shocked or depressed by it. Eighty-four years have elapsed since then and where are we now in those respects? The cruel torture of animals has multiplied a thousand times, even into agricultural activities, and has extended to the torture of man in concentration camps all over the world! Military experts think Then Jung resumes Kant’s idea that only the belief in realities beyond the coarse material world can guarantee the assumption of such a moral attitude. Above all, in such institutions as these, I say, we must teach that no truth obtained by such means has the moral right to exist” (1897/1983, ♡38. In institutions which offer training in physiology, the moral judgment of students is deliberately impaired by their involvement in disgraceful, barbarous experiments, by a cruel torture of animals which is a mockery of all human decency. (1897/1983, ♦8)Īfter a strongly polemical attack on materialism in general, Jung then continues by asserting that we should start a “revolution” on the part of our leading minds “by forcing morality on science and its exponents. God and the other world are the sole goal of all our philosophical investigations, and if the concepts of God and the other world had nothing to do with morality they would be worthless. All metaphysical speculation is directed to this end. It is the holy and inviolable thing that we must protect, and it is also the reason and purpose of all our speculation and inquiries. In one of them, he quoted Kant who wrote: When he was a twenty-one to twenty-three-year-old student, Jung gave four lectures to his co-students in the fraternity Zofingia in Basel. L ECTURE, K ÜSNACHT, N OVEMby Marie-Louise von Franz Jung’s Rehabilitation of the Feeling Function in Our Civilization Jung’s Rehabilitation of the Feeling Function in Our CivilizationĬ.G. Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook GroupĬ.
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