
Alan Watts Radio Talk: Tribute to Carl Jung 1961
Alan Watts Lectures
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Condemnation Is a Moral Achievement
Jung said that the patient does not feel himself accepted unless the very worst in him is accepted too. No one can bring this about by mere words. It comes only through reflection and through the doctor's attitude towards himself and his own dark side. If the doctor wants to guide another or even accompany him a step of the way, he must feel with that person's psyche. He never feels it when he passes judgment. Whether he puts his judgments into words or keeps them to himself makes not the slightest difference. To take the opposite position and to agree with the patient offhand is also of no use but as strange as him as much as condemnation. Incomes only through unprejudiced object
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