Once upon a time, great psychological thinkers bestrode the earth. William James, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Fred Skinner, Carl Jung and a few other heavyweights left deep footprints in the cultural landscape. The ground trembled when they fought.
Just as dinosaurs evolved into birds, grand theorists have been replaced by flocks of empiricists. As the science of the mind splinters into a hundred specialist fields, academic psychology no longer pays much heed to old theoretical systems. But the ideas of these early 20th century theorists continue to reverberate. Among the most interesting are Jung’s.
