ABSTRACT
C.G. Jung’s first point is that Hegel’s philosophy is the mere “rationalization” of “psychically conditioned statements,” a “confession of his unconscious.” In Jung’s view Hegel was, as it were, completely autistic, in the sense of his being overwhelmed by the unconscious and having no real relation to the world around him whatsoever. Jung puts down the rational character of Hegel’s works as nothing but a secondary “rationalization” of what in truth are “psychically conditioned statements”. The character of Jung’s work as a whole speaks against such an influence. Interestingly enough, Jung had, in his own way, however with respect to symbolism, come to a similar conclusion about the difference between the ancient and the modern worlds. Jung’s immediate experience in his own family had thus been the encounter with doubt as the logical status of modernity. The conventional view in Jungian psychology is that the modern world is neurotically dissociated.
