ABSTRACT

I f one prefers not to read the eighty-ninth Psalm-if, in other words, one is a shirker-the matter w i l l not end there. Whoever commits fraud once w i l l do it againparticularly when it comes to self-knowledge. The latter, however, is demanded by the Christian ethic in the form of the examination of conscience. They were pious people who maintained that self-knowledge paves the way to knowledge of God. (661)

Jung was as self-righteous as Oedipus pronouncing his curse and could be quite as sanctimonious as the pastors he hated.