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(1995). Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 9:211-212

In Search of Jung: Historical and Philosophical Enquiries. By J.J. Clarke. London: Routledge.

Nicola Blandford

Jung himself remarked:

If you call me an occultist because I am seriously investigating religious, mythological, and philosophical fantasies … then you are bound to diagnose Freud as a sexual pervert since he is doing likewise with sexual fantasies.

(Letters II p. 186).

J.J. Clarke is a historian of ideas who wants to rescue Jung from charges of mysticism and to show him to be a reputable thinker of importance to the intellectual debates of the twentieth century. He seeks to do this by examining the philosophies Jung studied and exploring Jung's development of these ideas and the theories of his own that resulted.

The first part of the book, headed ‘The Philosophic Journey’, looks at Jung in relation to Freud, and then at his place in the Western philosophical tradition originated by Kant. Clarke shows in some detail the links between Jung's thought and that of philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Dilthey, and of historians like Burckhardt and Bachoven. Via

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