In the previous post, I explored why Carl Jung is experiencing a cultural resurgence. People are hungry for depth, meaning, and frameworks for self-understanding that go beyond symptom management. Jung promised all of this.

But does he deliver? To answer this, we need to separate what Jung got genuinely right from what he mystified beyond usefulness.

The unconscious has structure. Jung recognized that unconscious mental life isn't just a chaos of repressed wishes (as Freud sometimes implied) but has its own organization and intelligence. We now understand this through research on implicit memory, procedural learning, and automatic processing. Much of what our brains do happens outside conscious awareness, following learned patterns and rules we never deliberately installed.

We carry rejected parts of ourselves. The shadow concept points to something clinically real: We all have aspects of ourselves we've disowned, hidden, or rejected. These disowned........

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