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Carl Jung on Catholicism
Volume 30 Issue 10, 11 & 12 | Posted: December 31, 2016
The Catholic Church is liberal enough to look upon the Osiris-Horus-Isis myth, or at any rate suitable portions of it, as a prefiguration of the Christian legend of salvation.
– Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion, Paragraph 178
– Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion, Paragraph 178
The Roman Catholic Church provides a chance for people to get away from their complexes and back to mankind with confession and the age-old therapy was consecration by initiation which included the avowal of sins.
– Carl Jung, Modern Psychology, Vol. 1, page 132
Our culture, which is threatened today, is primarily a Christian culture, if it had not been for the Roman Catholic Church, we should still be barbarians.
– Carl Jung, ETH Lectures, page 196
The Catholic Church is liberal enough to look upon the Osiris-Horus-Isis myth, or at any rate suitable portions of it, as a prefiguration of the Christian legend of salvation.
– Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion, Paragraph 178
– Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion, Paragraph 178
The Roman Catholic Church provides a chance for people to get away from their complexes and back to mankind with confession and the age-old therapy was consecration by initiation which included the avowal of sins.
– Carl Jung, Modern Psychology, Vol. 1, page 132
Our culture, which is threatened today, is primarily a Christian culture, if it had not been for the Roman Catholic Church, we should still be barbarians.
– Carl Jung, ETH Lectures, page 196
Why, when Pope Pius XII in one of his last discourses deplored that the world was no longer conscious enough of the presence of angels, he was saying to his faithful Catholics in Christian terms exactly what I am trying to say in terms of psychology to those who stand more chance of understanding this language than any other.
– Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, Pages 410-423
Even so, as a Protestant, it is quite clear to me that, in its healing effects, no creed is as closely akin to psychoanalysis as Catholicism.
– Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, Pages 38-46