Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Youth is wasted on the Jung......

.....And, you are only Jung once.
The United Nations has declared that 2011 will be the International Year of Chemistry - a time to honor the role chemistry plays in our lives.  Meanwhile, Jungians celebrate chemistry in a different sense of the word - the sense that means natural attraction.  I can't swallow the idea that "a person is never too Jung". 
From a cursory glance at some of what Jung believed, he may have been correct about what draws one person to another or a person to a product but, he was probably wrong about the reasons why.  He puts too much emphasis on the spiritual with it's ersatz science of alchemy and other occult phenomenon.
The alchemists of old never succeeded in changing a heavy metal, lead, into gold.  However, present day psychiatrists have found a way to change the lightest metal, lithium, into something even better.  It is a compound that changes the brain chemistry of persons who want to be in love with their soul.
Just think about how much money is saved in therapy fees when a psychiatrist can do three med reviews an hour instead of providing psychotherapy to a single client for the same amount of time.  It's a lot easier, too.
Ah, progress. 
  

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