{Jung's 'Memories, Dreams & [sic] Reflections' [continued]}[10th June 1988]

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So far (to p262),* and Glossary: Archetypes, et al) I have found two major question-marks against Jung.

The first (but this may only be a question of terminology)** is his assertion that the Self is the centre and the circumference of the conscious and unconscious mind. In English, the word 'self' carries a charge (e.g. self-ish, self-centred, self-conscious)*** which, if Jung's German original also carried it, would make his use of the term difficult to explain. My understanding of the 'self' is perhaps closer to what he (after Freud, presumably) calls the 'Ego'. What he calls the 'self' (at least in translation), I might call the Mind; but I am not sure. There seems to be some confusion, whether in Jung or in my understanding of Jung, about the nature of the reality of God at the Centre of Man's psyche.

*[Of Jung's 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections '(See last previous entry.)]

**(or even of translation)

***This also follows from mystical religious traditions.

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