“Jung believed that he was proceeding scientifically, but most Freudians remain convinced that he was inventing his own underground realm, rather as Tolkien invented Middle Earth. There is at least an element of truth in this view.”

—  Colin Wilson

Source: C. G. Jung: Lord of the Underworld (1984), p. 126

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