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What Jungians have, but it probably needs to be strengthened, is faith. We place our faith in the Self, in the psyche. In this sense when we sit down with a patient and conduct analysis, we believe that the answers to the patients' questions will emerge out of the dialogue, out of their inner world, out of their dreams. That's an act of faith. And I think that needs to be very solidly stressed in the training program. The analyst doesn't have the answers, what you have is faith that the answers will come. Otherwise you couldn't conduct analysis. You know you don't have the answers. But you have faith that they will emerge, out of the process, out of the psyche.

There's a famous letter that Jung wrote to one of his followers that sent him a dream. In that, Jung speculated that a new religion would form in about 600 years. And he said, in the meantime individuals are creating their own spiritual systems or their own belief systems out of their inner work and their dreams and their active imagination. But eventually this will come into a new world religion.

This is a feature of the Jungian world I think that is weak: the sense of community. Jung tried it a bit in founding the Psychological Club. His patients would come together and meet with each other and interact with each other. I think it was an attempt to form a community of people that are doing this individual work. But I don't think it was a big success. I think that there is such an emphasis on the individual work rather than the relational aspect among the members that there were a lot of conflicts in the club at one point, at one point Jung actually left it because he was criticized heavily. Then they invited him to come back and he really was a dominant figure, so what the club became was Jung and his followers. Whether that was in any sense a community I have my doubts. The people knew each other but I don't think they sense much of a connection with each other... That's also true in the student body, there is a way in which the students are connected but in many senses they're not. They are working on themselves, and their analysis, then their studies, they are more like individual units coming together occasionally for something and then going their own separate ways.