Memories. Dreams, Reflections. What kind of book it is. Jung on his reading of Nietzsche.

Kierkegaard, much earlier, had pointed out how scholarship can function as a diversion, a distraction, an escape from ourselves. I confess to a fascination w i t h some scholarship, not al l , but find the Jungian literature ful l of undigested and indigestible erudition that seems to have no other function than distraction from the central task of depth psychology: a better understanding of ourselves and our fellow men.