Interestingly, our culture has a rage to find an empirical grounding for all things, and well we should, but there is another way of looking at this. Where Jung has found a reception on campuses it is usually in the religion and literature departments because of his contribution to our understanding of the character and dynamics of symbolic expression. So, for example, in the treatise on Flying Saucers, written in the 50's when there were many sightings by reliable folks, he did not seek to prove or disprove whether or not there were foreign visitors. He traced such sightings historically, focused on the character of that particular symbol, and speculated on the psychological reason for such sightings. So much of modern psychology has been a vailure of nerve to tackle these kinds of non-verifiable questions.
Many psychologies deny the reality of the unconscious, and dismiss the importance of dreams.
Risking, and being open to the reality of the psyche, as it moves invisibly through political events, pops up in our most intimate relationships, and generates that phantasmagoria that goes on in us every night, may lead even psychologists to an enlarged encounter with their own lives. Thank you for joining in.