C.G. Jung on Christianity and on Hegel : Part 2 of The flight into the unconscious

Part 1 - Christianity. 1 Jung's millimeter: feigned submission-clandestine defiance: Jung's religious psychology. 2 The "patriarchal neglect of the feminine principle": a psychological fallacy of Jung's. 3 Materialistic psychology: Jung's essay on the trinity. Part 1 Realization through the "recalcitrant fourth". Part 2 Rejection of spirit. 4 God must not die! C.G. Jung's thesis of the one-sidedness of Christianity. 5 The reality of evil? An analysis of Jung's argument. Part 2 - Hegel. 6 Jung's betrayal of his truth. The adoption of a Kant-based empiricism and the rejection of Hegel's speculative thought. 7 "Jung and Hegel" revisited; or, The seelenproblem of modern man and the "Doubt-that-has-killed-it". Part 3 - Coda to The flight into the unconscious. 8 The flight into the unconscious

'The fundamental importance of Christianity for Jung is well documented in his writings and letters. For the whole of his long career the great psychologist had wrestled with what he called "...the great snake of the centuries, the burden of the human mind, the problem of Christianity." By comparison, his statements about Hegel are quite scarce. Both topics, nevertheless, have in common that they elicited from Jung radical accusations, accusations not presented in the calm tone of a psychological scholar, but fired by a deep-seated personal affect that propelled Jung to wish "to dream the myth onwards," that is, to move to a new, his own improved and corrected version of Christianity....This volume critically examines his theses and arguments by means of a series of close readings and by confronting his claims with the texts on which his interpretations are based....'

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