ABSTRACT

Concerning certain of his essential views about psychology and religion and his idea of our having “to dream the myth onwards,” I have repeatedly charged Jung with “mystification.” Leaving aside what I called Jung’s “theosophy” (his speculations about Christian religion and the fate of the Godhead), which is another subject and of no concern for the present paper, Jung’s “religious psychology,” his insistence on “numinous experience” and “religious dreams” as a necessary part of the cure for neurosis and on the individuation of the individual through the experience of “the self” as a God-image in the soul have, I claimed, the character and status of a simulation.