Disenchanting the “Coniunctio” and C.G. Jung as Revivalist Preacher

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In his book, Coniunctio: Reflexions on a key concept of C.G. Jung’s psychology, Wolfgang Giegerich shows us how Jung so desperately wanted to have his cake and eat it too. Jung knew that myth, religion, and metaphysics were dead for the modern mind, yet he ardently believed that the process of individuation through an encounter with “the unconscious” was a way for the modern person to experience the old soul truths directly as a present, though only personal, reality, and thus be “cured” of the neurosis of meaninglessness. Jung’s compromise formation, attempting to admit the truth of modernity and deny it at the same time, comes at a great cost: the murder of modern soul and true psychology.

Hal Childs, PhD, MFT is a…