ABSTRACT
The threat to the substance of Jungian psychology comes, secondly, also from the adherents and friends of this psychology, on the one hand from the professional Jungians in whose hands it has been turned into something completely different from what C. J Jung himself intended with his ‘complex psychology.’ Jungian psychology has the misfortune not to have been able to attract great minds, in contrast, e.g., to Freud’s psychology, which produced a psychologist like Lacan and was able to inspire many philosophers and poets. On the other hand, the threat comes also from the adherents of Jungian psychology in the wider public, among whom Jung’s work degenerated into “pop psychology,” in other words, into a commodity, which has above all the function of satisfying private ideological-spiritual and emotional needs and thus of compensating for a feeling of lack.
