CLARENCE J. KARIER

Two dialectically connected myths prevail in all science, including
psychoanalysis: first, that science is a value-free analysis of an objective
reality, and second, that scientific research is governed by an internal
logic forcing progressive movement from one truth to another, from one
discovered law to the next. These myths are sharply contradicted by
Karier's analysis of Jung's work, which shows that Jung's ideas were
explicitly tied to his personal value system.

More concretely, Jung's values were determined by his recognition
that Christian myths had lost their credibility in the twentieth century.
He sought to create a new "therapeutic" set of ideals based on the
primitive, prerational qualities of human nature, and became very
critical of the formal, analytical thinking which had destroyed the old
myths. Having judged the Nazi movement to be an eruption of
elemental life forces, Jung's position brought him dangerously close to
German Völkisch ideas, to anti-Semitism, and to a positive assessment of
National Socialism.

The sounds of machine guns across the frozen mountain ridges of Korea
had not yet faded into the stillness of history when Hermann Hesse,
writing to his friends from the peace and tranquility of the Engadine,

In writing this paper I have profited from both the research and the dialogue
of a number of people at the University of Illinois. I am particularly indebted
to Russell Marks, Stephen Yulish, Lauren Weisberg, Paul Violas, Mobin
Shorish, Chris Shea, David Hogan, Mark Sorenson, Marion Metzow, Erik
Kristiansen, Brisbane Rouzan, and Micky Becker. The research reported
herein was in part supported by the Spencer Foundation and in part by the
College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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