ABSTRACT
C.G. Jung Millimeter has written much about the religious dimension of the psyche and his interpretation of and relation to God. Jung’s dream father is intellectually rich; rather than pitiable he is a dignified model of deep religious insight. The real father of Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections, there can be no doubt, had a problem. Jung’s millimeter is the expression of a compromise formation. Jung’s wish was also not, as one might think under these circumstances, to “reform” his inherited religion as previous homines religiosi had done, most notably in the so-called “Reformation,” by redressing its degeneracy and returning to its sources. Jung’s shortcut is that he tried to get away with one’s personal experience just like that, without any external backing. “God” came in only as a kind of “functionary,” as a means to an end in this scheme of Jung’s.
