Jung: Scientist or Mystic?

It is nonsense to call Carl Jung a mystic just because he was interested in the occult. It is unfortunate that his work is often hi-jacked by those needing to give legitimacy to a particular supernatural view of the universe. There is no doubt that Carl Jung considered himself to be a scientist. His psychology was to have been a natural science, not merely a school of psychotherapy. Jung wrote: "The treatment of psychology should in general be characterised by the principle of universality. No special theory or special subject should be propounded, but psychology should be taught in its biological, ethnological, medical, philosophical, cultural-historical and religious aspects". - Quote from The Psychology of Jung, CA Meier (1984)

Jung's Unfinished Masterpiece

Much of Carl Jung's prodigious output of books, papers and letters remains untranslated and/or unpublished. According to Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology by Sonu Shamdasani there are "...sufficient unpublished manuscripts to fill half a dozen volumes." Furthermore, in the Jung papers in Zurich there are "...approximately 20,000 letters, and there are many letters scattered in public and private archives around the world ...less that 10 percent of this has been published". No wonder Jung is so misunderstood and misrepresented.

Psychology & Consciousness

Psychology is mainly concerned with behaviorism . It does not address the question of consciousness and treats the brain as a "black box". In general, psychologists have no particular interest in how the human brain is constructed, how it works or how it evolved. Francis Crick writes in The Astonishing Hypothesis that academic psychology "denied the usefulness of consciousness as a psychological concept...partly because experiments involving introspection did not appear to be leading anywhere and partly because it was hoped psychology would become more scientific by studying behavior."