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SUPPLEMENT: REPLY TO C. G. JUNG

In the face of C. G. Jung’s reply to my criticism of him in “Re-
1
ligion and Modern Thinking,” it will be sufficient to clarify
anew my position in regard to his arguments.
I have not, as he thinks, placed in question any essential
part of his empirical psychiatric material. That would certainly
be unauthorized. Nor have I criticized any of his psycholog-
ical theses. This also is not my affair. I have merely pointed
out that he makes assertions about religious subjects which
overstep the realms of the psychiatric and the psychological—
contrary to his assurance that he remains strictly inside them.
Whether I have demonstrated this the conscientious reader
can ascertain through checking my citations in their context.
I have been at pains to facilitate this for him through careful
statement of sources. Jung disputes my demonstration, and the
method he uses to do so is made clear in his reply.
I have pointed out that Jung describes it as a “fact,” “that the
divine action arises from one’s own inner self” and that he sets
this fact in contrast to the “orthodox conception,” according

1 The chapter “Religion and Modern Thinking” appeared in German in the Feb-
ruary, 1952, issue of the periodical Merkur. The May issue carried an answer by Prof.
C. G. Jung and my reply which follows here.

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