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[–] gazillions 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

He's probably the only one of his sort that I like. He had an instinctive understanding of understanding of human nature. What he had can't be learned. We could drown in all the people trying to emulate Jung. Freud was a shallow fraud that scraped the surface and then slapped a pretentious template over it to fit. His entire game was built around demonizing dissent of his findings. Horney, Skinner and all the other mid century analysts were cold and self serving. Jung had a non judgemental respect for humanity that saw the benefits in what we call faults and the deficits of our virturs; but that's what happens if you aren't judging I guess.

The Briggs Myers personality test seems to be based on Jung's work. To me it's another example of trying to copy a master. I don't think Briggs or Myers understood how much of what they parrotted came from astrology. (Most people have absolutely no clue what astrology is) If they had, they would have studied that, they would have had more rounded and original construction on their hands. You have to build your own foundation, and few do that.