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Carl Jung never wanted to found a school around his name. In fact, he despised the idea of having "Jungians" who merely repeated his ideas. When he participated in the founding of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1948, he sarcastically remarked:
>"My grandfather, Carl Gustav Jung, founded a home for mentally retarded children. Now I am founding another one (/mbti/), for mentally retarded adults."
This phrase is recorded in the book Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology by historian Sonu Shamdasani. Although harsh, the comment shows how Jung viewed with concern the institutionalization of analytical psychology, fearing it would become a dogmatic system like Freudianism, from which he had broken away. Jung believed that true psychological work was experiential, symbolic, and individual, and that following his ideas as doctrine went against the very process itself.
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Carl Jung never wanted to found a school around his name. In fact, he despised the idea of having "Jungians" who merely repeated his ideas. When he participated in the founding of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1948, he sarcastically remarked:
>"My grandfather, Carl Gustav Jung, founded a home for mentally retarded children. Now I am founding another one (/mbti/), for mentally retarded adults."
This phrase is recorded in the book Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology by historian Sonu Shamdasani. Although harsh, the comment shows how Jung viewed with concern the institutionalization of analytical psychology, fearing it would become a dogmatic system like Freudianism, from which he had broken away. Jung believed that true psychological work was experiential, symbolic, and individual, and that following his ideas as doctrine went against the very process itself.
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