Another difficulty in developing Jung’s contribution to epistemology and methodology is that such an activity would seemingly contradict Jung’s own strong views about the very essence of his work. Jung is known for being adverse to any suggestion that his theoretical formulation could be separated from his overall psychology. More specifically, he detested the idea that his work could be considered as constituting any ‘free-standing’ philosophical statement, abstracted, distinct and independent from its clinical-therapeutic context: ‘I have set up neither a system nor a general theory, but
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