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<DIV>Bernard supplied this damning criticism of Heidegger by Karl Jung:</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>C. G. Jung on Martin Heidegger.</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV> Heidegger's modus philosophandi is neurotic through and through and
is ultimately rooted in his psychic crankiness. His kindred spirits, close or
distant, are sitting in lunatic asylums, some as patients and some as
psychiatrists on a philosophical rampage. For all its mistakes the nineteenth
century deserves better than to have Heidegger counted as its ultimate
representative. ... for all its critical analysis philosophy has not yet managed
to root out its psychopaths. What do we have psychiatric diagnosis for? That
grizzler Kierkegaard also belongs in this galčre. Philosophy has still to learn
that it is made by human beings and depends to an alarming degree on their
psychic constitution. In the critical philosophy of the future there will be a
chapter on "The Psychopathology of Philosophy." Hegel
<http://koti.mbnet.fi/neptunia/philosophy/hegelcj1.htm is fit to burst with
presumption and vanity, Nietsche drips with outraged sexuality, and so on. There
is no thinking qua thinking, at times it is a pisspot of unconscious devils,
just like any other function that lays claim to hegemony. Often what is thought
is less important than who thinks it. But this is assiduously overlooked.
Neurosis addles the brains of every philosopher because he is at odds with
himself. His philosophy is then nothing but a systemized struggle with his own
uncertainty. </DIV>
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<DIV>Excuse these blasphemies! They flow from my hygienic propensities, because
I hate to see so many young minds infected by Heidegger. </DIV>
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<DIV>C. G. Jung in a letter to Arnold Künzli on February 28, 1943 <BR>submitted
by Bernard X Bovasso</DIV>
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<DIV>MichaelPret writes:<BR>Bernard, it might have been more appropriate had you
asked explicitly whether the quote might have originated with Jung along with
the quote rather than just quoting. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Jud: <BR>Obviously the self-appointed straw-clutching excusatory naif
and High Priest of the *<EM>Heidegger the Nazi Cult</EM>* -
Saint Michael the Pretermitter's pathetic hope is that Jung's well known
contempt for *the pyschic crank* Heidegger is a fake. He would do
well to read Bishop's *<EM>Jung in Context,*</EM> or to order the <EM>*C. G.
Jung Letters, Volume 1</EM> by Carl Gustav Jung* from his local library -
that is if the gerontological centre of Britain - Sandwich,
actually has a library, or is all the space reserved for old folk's
homes?</DIV>
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<DIV>*On the few occasions that Jung discusses Heidegger, his remarks are always
highly negative. In a letter to Josef Meinerz of 3rd of July 1939, Jung accused
Heidegger of "Juggling with words." ( Jung. Letters 1. p. 271) Then again in his
letter to Arnold Kunzle of 13th Feb 1943 Jung contrasted Kant's long accepted
philosophical terminology - "Even Kant for all his critiques, constantly employs
the concepts that were current in his century" with another sort of criticism
that only leads to "the mastery of complicated banalities, the Platonic exemplar
of which " Jung jokingly added, "is embodied for me in the philosopher
Heidegger." (Letters 1. p. 330.) And in his next letter to Kunzle of 28th
of Feb 1943, Jung went so far as to say that "Heidegger's <EM>philosophandi</EM>
is neurotic through and through and is ultimately rooted in his psychic
crankiness" (p. 133.) As Jung's letters to Medard Boss of 27 June 1943, and 5th
of Aug 1947 (Letters II. pp. XI - XV) and to Gerhard Zacharias 24th Aug 1953
(Letters II. p. 121) show, Jung had a strong dislike of Existential psychology
which used concepts derived from Heidegger.*</DIV>
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<DIV><EM>Jung in Contexts: A Reader.</EM> <BR>By Paul Bishop Contributor Paul
Bishop Published by Routledge, 1999</DIV>
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<DIV>also see:</DIV>
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<DIV><EM>C. G. Jung Letters, Volume 1 by Carl Gustav Jung.</EM> <BR>Bollingen
Series #0095: ISBN 0415205573, 9780415205573</DIV>
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<DIV>Compare this quite different source from Oldmeadow's:
<EM>Orientalism, Racial Theory and the Allure of Fascism</EM></DIV>
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<DIV>*Let us assemble a few now well-known facts, each of which, in isolation,
may seem of little significance but which cumulatively suggest a problematic
requiring the attention of anyone interested in our general subject. W. B.
Yeats, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot (and, to confuse the mix, Richard Wagner and
Madame Blavatsky) were not only keen students of the Orient but were all
anti-Semitic, while Pound, notoriously, espoused the ideology of fascism. Mircea
Eliade, Joseph Campbell and Georges Dumézil, the doyen of Indo-European studies,
were also anti-Semitic and were susceptible to the anti-modern appeal of extreme
right wing political ideologies. A more overt and virulent form of
"spiritualized" fascism can be found in the person and work of the Italian
orientalist Julius Evola. Martin Heidegger publicly and theatrically aligned
himself with the Nazi regime in the early 30s, and became an unabashed
propagandist for Hitler's domestic and foreign policies. He was a Nazi informer
and betrayed several Jewish friends and colleagues. Carl Jung evinced some
enthusiasm for Nazism in its early years, discerning in it a hope of spiritual
regeneration of Europe; there are also more than a few traces of anti-Semitism
in his writings. (Unlike Heidegger, Jung was later implacably opposed to
Nazism.) As George Steiner has observed, the "alpine priesthood" of Eranos was
susceptible to a kind of conservative-romantic mysticism which was at least
tinged with "Führer-politics." (p. 375)*</DIV>
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<DIV>Oldmeadow. Harry <EM>Journeys East: 20th Century Western Encounters with
Eastern Religious Traditions.</EM><BR>(The Library of Perennial
Philosophy)</DIV>
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