Volume 4, Number 2 · February 25, 1965
Irrational Man
By Alasdair MacIntyre
Man and His Symbols
edited by C.G. Jung, with an Introduction by John Freeman
Doubleday, 320 pp., $14.95
Outline of a Jungian Aesthetics
by Morris Philipson
Northwestern, 256 pp., $4.95
One of the least remarked characteristics of the thought of C. G. Jung is its almost total lack of cultural context. The history of Jung's affiliation to and break with Freud, as usually recounted, conveys a quite false sense of historical continuity. As the story is told, Freud is seen both as heir to, and reaction against, the atomistic conscious psychology of the nineteenth century, while Jung, Adler, Reich, and the rest are seen as off-shoots of the same heredity and reaction. No doubt this story is necessary to explain how the adult Jung came to give to his thought the form that he did.
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