he really means. Because he wants to be seen as scientist of note, he uses quasi-scientific explanations at times. However, it's also clear that this is self-evidently a contrivance to ward off possible accusations about mysticism. He was senisitive to this, because Freud was very dismissive of it, and it appears to be the real reason they fell out. It's the inconsistent nature of Jung's own explanations that allows people to read whatever they want into it. To me it's just an interesting journey of someone searching for answers, who didn't really find them, but found a lot of interesting snippets along the way. ... clusters of emotional issues and dynamics, drawn from past, present and even the future. Drawn from the future. That's clever. This idea rescues clinicians from having to make precise diagnoses ... I bet! Jung ... has become the psychologist of choice for reflective, quiet, shy, poetic people who suffer excruciatingly in their more extraverted families and societies. Evidence? Jung coined the term "collective unconscious" to indicate what all humans have in common from a psychological point of view What people have in common psychologically does not form a consciousness. As a Jungian analyst I have always insisted that Jungian analysts and scholars acknowledge and apologise for his antisemitism in the 1930s and try to fix those parts of the theories that are misguided or plain wrong: for instance using the word "parasite" in connection with the Jews, to refer to an alleged lack of a