ABSTRACT
A close look at what C.G. Jung thought about Hegel is capable of revealing a fundamental structural deficit in Jung’s psychology project, a deficit that amounts to a systematic, even though unintended, “betrayal” of his own cause. Far from being ambivalent, wavering between praise and contempt, Jung’s Hegel-image in all his sparse utterances on this topic over the years is absolutely consistent. Small wonder that Jung reacted allergically to Hegel, particularly finding his language “laborious.” The splitting of truth into two was the trick that allowed Jung to hold on to Immanuel Kant’s “barrier” and yet to indulge, as it were, in his kind of “Dreams of a Spirit-Seer.” Despite many literal statements attempting to produce a different conception, Jung’s psychology ultimately shared with all other kinds of psychology the problem that it remained psychologistic and reductive.
