ABSTRACT
The main thrust of this chapter is to cast a critical eye on the absence of the notion of the sublime in the writings of C.G. Jung. To that end, it draws on his own copious written work, as well as Longinus’s On the Sublime, Kant’s third critique, and Edmund Burke’s seminal volume on the sublime and the beautiful. In contrast to Jung, the English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth, is cited as a prime exponent of Kant’s thinking on the sublime. He and his fellow Romantic, Samuel T. Coleridge, drew on Kant’s transcendental idealism that became the key to the dynamism at work in the sublime outpourings of the English Romantic poets from that time forward.
