ABSTRACT
In contrast to other sciences which theorize from a position that is supposedly outside the phenomena that they are concerned with, psychology is immersed in itself as in an infinite sea inasmuch as everything it says about its subject matter, the psyche, is but a further phenomenal expression of the psyche, strokes of the swimming it must learn in order to build itself at sea. Now by "psychology 'with soul'" Jung meant a "psychology based upon the hypothesis of an autonomous mind". A very different ship, this, than the ship of sexuality! Indeed, as Jung jumping from the one to the other put it, "the sexual language of regression [that Freud prided himself on having brought like a plague to America—G. M.] changes, in retreating still further back". Life and psychology are always already ongoing. Becoming conscious of what a true psychology ought to be and what soul is in itself an integral part of doing psychology.
