Jung

Summary

Dominique Pagani mentions Jung mostly critically, in connection with psychoanalysis. What he retains first is the break with Freud: by moving away from him and from the question of sexuality, Jung supposedly drifted toward Nazi sympathies. In a session devoted to Michel Clouscard, he compares this path to that of thinkers who abandon class analysis1. Elsewhere, he calls him a sympathizer of the Third Reich2. His main objection concerns the notion of the collective unconscious, which he rejects several times between 2015 and 2022. He speaks in this regard of "delusions"3 and reproaches Jung for confusing the unconscious with genetics4. Jung's name also comes up in a question on psychoanalysis during the tribute to Domenico Losurdo5. Finally, he distinguishes in passing the pronunciation of this name from that of Hume6. The passages are brief and include no sustained reading of any work by Jung.

1. 1Everything is allowed but nothing is possible: Michel Clouscard (1)29 Jan 2012 · 55:59
2. 2“Red-browns”, “decolonial”: should we use the dominant language?31 Mar 2021 · 16:56
3. 3The music of history26 Apr 2015 · 51:41
4. 4Who is hiding beneath the surfaces? Aesthetics and politics20 May 2022 · 1:11:13
5. 5Tribute to Domenico Losurdo2 Jul 2018 · 1:24:28
6. 6#1.3 Between crisis and war: philosophising?14 Sept 2015 · 53:53

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.