Post-Jungians

Carl G. Jung was such a prolific source of ideas in twentieth-century psychology that subsequent generations of Jungian analysts and scholars were bound to take divergent paths. There existed around the year 2000 more than 2000 Jungian analysts worldwide in 28 countries. Another approximately 10,000 psychotherapists and counselors have been more or less influenced by Jungian psychology. They share many common themes, such as archetypal theory, but vary in their priorities in many ways. Jung’s usually unacknowledged influence in the broader field of psychology appears in theories such as introversion and extraversion. But his emphases on the unconscious and religion has largely excluded him from the strongly scientific psychologies. Jung’s influence in culture studies was strong on authors such as Mircea Eliade in world religions and Joseph Campbell in mythology. The rise of feminism, following increasing women’s increased educational opportunities and widespread use of liberating...