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Why Was Carl Jung Racist?

On making value judgements

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Jan 24, 2025
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Was Carl Jung, the influential Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist, a racist?

The Living Philosophy makes a compelling case that he was, and he is not the first to do so. Psychotherapist Farhad Dalal made the same argument in his 1988 essay Jung: A Racist, and progressive Jungians have been scrambling to apologise for it ever since.

I don’t think the …

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