Week 24 · modern

Carl Jung

Carl Jung was Sigmund Freud's most promising student until they had a falling out so dramatic it shaped twentieth-century psychology. Freud thought the unconscious was mostly a garbage dump of repressed desires. Jung thought it was a cathedral full of symbols, archetypes, and a collective wisdom older than any individual. He spent his career exploring the parts of the mind that most people spend their lives avoiding.

“"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes." He wrote that in a letter to a friend. It sounds gentle. It isn't. Looking inside, the way Jung meant it, means meeting every part of yourself you've spent your life running from.”