The Jungian Freud: Book I of In The Mirror: A Psychological Reversal Of Freud And Jung

In The Jungian Freud, Book I of In The Mirror: A Psychological Reversal Of Freud And Jung, John Swygert places Sigmund Freud before Jung’s mirror.Freud gave the modern world one of its most powerful languages of depth: repression, hidden wish, sexuality, childhood conflict, dream disguise, symptom, neurosis, transference, and the personal unconscious. He taught civilization to distrust the surface and listen beneath speech, dream, symptom, and respectable self-presentation.But no founder stands outside the psyche.This book asks what Freud looks like when examined through Jung’s symbolic psychology. What was Freud’s persona? What was his shadow? What did his system reveal, and what did it resist? What did his fear of religion, myth, mysticism, and symbolic expansion protect? What did it prevent?Freud is not dismissed here. He is deepened.The Jungian Freud reads Freud not only as physician, theorist, and founder, but as father, lawgiver, patriarch, underworld guide, wounded seer, and archetypal figure in the history of depth psychology. Jung’s mirror reveals both Freud’s greatness and his boundary: the genius who opened the unconscious, and the founder who may have guarded the door too tightly once he opened it.Freud gave psychology its knife.Jung asks what the knife could not see.This is not a book about choosing Jung over Freud. It is a book about holding both men in living dialogue: wound and symbol, repression and individuation, descent and ascent, personal unconscious and collective field.Freud discovered the unconscious as wound.Jung asked what symbolic world opened behind that wound. Read more