jung-science
Original: jung-science on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Two people walk through a wooded park as they argue: a man with curly orange-brown hair in a yellow/tan shirt, and a woman with dark hair, glasses, and a maroon jacket.
Panel 1
Man: You skeptics are quick to dismiss Jung, but he was just saying that there are mythic archetypes in the human mind that we need to understand.
Panel 2
Woman: He believed in telepathy, psychokinetic explosions, alchemy, reincarnation, UFOs, and he once had a very formative dream in which God, sitting on a golden throne, personally shat on him.
Panel 3
Man: The problem is people don't read books anymore. They watch 12 minute summaries written by nice modern people who read half the Wikipedia entry.
Panel 4
Woman (pointing, angry): You're trying to build a personal philosophy based on a simplification of a simplification of a summary!
Panel 5
The man stares ahead, unconvinced and slightly annoyed.
Woman (off-panel, partial speech bubble): Well how a comp[lex] human [...]
Panel 6
Woman: How do YOU get through a complex world with a tiny brain?
Woman: I read two complex books per year, yell at people about them, and feel great.
Votey:
(A box of dense text, presented as a quotation.)
From the translation by Richard and Clara Winston:
I thought it over again and arrived at the same conclusion. "Obviously God also desires me to show courage," I thought. "If that is so and I go through with it, then He will give me His grace and illumination?
I gathered all my courage, as though I was about to leap forthwith into hell-fire, and let the thought come. I saw before me the cathedral, the blue sky. God sits on His golden throne, high above the world--and from under the throne an enormous turd falls upon the sparkling new roof, shatters it, and breaks the walls of the cathedral asunder.
So that was it! I felt an enormous, an indescribable relief.
Panel 1
Man: You skeptics are quick to dismiss Jung, but he was just saying that there are mythic archetypes in the human mind that we need to understand.
Panel 2
Woman: He believed in telepathy, psychokinetic explosions, alchemy, reincarnation, UFOs, and he once had a very formative dream in which God, sitting on a golden throne, personally shat on him.
Panel 3
Man: The problem is people don't read books anymore. They watch 12 minute summaries written by nice modern people who read half the Wikipedia entry.
Panel 4
Woman (pointing, angry): You're trying to build a personal philosophy based on a simplification of a simplification of a summary!
Panel 5
The man stares ahead, unconvinced and slightly annoyed.
Woman (off-panel, partial speech bubble): Well how a comp[lex] human [...]
Panel 6
Woman: How do YOU get through a complex world with a tiny brain?
Woman: I read two complex books per year, yell at people about them, and feel great.
Votey:
(A box of dense text, presented as a quotation.)
From the translation by Richard and Clara Winston:
I thought it over again and arrived at the same conclusion. "Obviously God also desires me to show courage," I thought. "If that is so and I go through with it, then He will give me His grace and illumination?
I gathered all my courage, as though I was about to leap forthwith into hell-fire, and let the thought come. I saw before me the cathedral, the blue sky. God sits on His golden throne, high above the world--and from under the throne an enormous turd falls upon the sparkling new roof, shatters it, and breaks the walls of the cathedral asunder.
So that was it! I felt an enormous, an indescribable relief.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A man with curly orange-brown hair and a woman with dark hair, glasses, and a maroon jacket walk through a wooded park, arguing about the psychologist Carl Jung. The man says skeptics are too quick to dismiss Jung, who just meant there are mythic archetypes in the human mind we need to understand. The woman counters that Jung believed in telepathy, psychokinetic explosions, alchemy, reincarnation, and UFOs, and once had a formative dream in which God, on a golden throne, personally defecated on him. The man pivots: the real problem is that people don't read books anymore, they watch 12-minute summaries written by people who read half the Wikipedia entry. The woman, pointing angrily, snaps that HE is building a personal philosophy on a simplification of a simplification of a summary. The man stares ahead, annoyed, as she asks how he gets through a complex world with a tiny brain. She then cheerfully answers her own question: "I read two complex books per year, yell at people about them, and feel great."
Votey: A box of dense quoted text labeled as being from the translation by Richard and Clara Winston. It recounts Jung's actual recollected dream/vision: he gathers his courage and lets the forbidden thought come, seeing a cathedral under a blue sky with God on His golden throne high above the world, from beneath which an enormous turd drops onto the sparkling new roof, shattering it and breaking the cathedral walls apart. The narrator says "So that was it! I felt an enormous, an indescribable relief." This reveals that the absurd image the woman described in the comic is a real anecdote from Jung's memoirs.
Votey: A box of dense quoted text labeled as being from the translation by Richard and Clara Winston. It recounts Jung's actual recollected dream/vision: he gathers his courage and lets the forbidden thought come, seeing a cathedral under a blue sky with God on His golden throne high above the world, from beneath which an enormous turd drops onto the sparkling new roof, shattering it and breaking the cathedral walls apart. The narrator says "So that was it! I felt an enormous, an indescribable relief." This reveals that the absurd image the woman described in the comic is a real anecdote from Jung's memoirs.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.