Jung

Although Freud became increasingly dogmatic in insisting on his Oedipus and castration complex construction of the psychological ills of children and adults, he retained his method of deconstructing the mythological, symbolic and dream- and art-work disguises which he also believed constitute these ills. Furthermore, despite warning against psychoanalysis, like schizophrenia, overvaluing abstract ideas and losing sight of the sensory and perceptual roots of thinking in talking about things with others, he was suspicious of what could be called sensory or perceptual logic. ‘An advance of intellectuality consists in deciding against direct sense-perception,’ he wrote, ‘in favour of what are known as the higher intellectual processes — that is, memories, reflections and inferences.’ He celebrated in these terms the victory of kinship descent reckoned in the name of the father, not the mother, the latter ‘established by the evidence of the senses’, he said, welcoming the patriarchal rule that, as he put it, ‘the child should bear his father's name and be his heir’. He also celebrated the Jewish law against making images of God. As a result, despite having described himself as ‘a completely godless Jew’, ¹ he said, ‘our God is the greatest and mightiest, although he is invisible like a gale of wind or like the soul’. ²