lol k no hegel. but he sounds like me… and since when was jung right?

[edit] Psychology

Perhaps the most scathing criticism has come from the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung, who associated Hegel with mental illness when he wrote:

A philosophy like Hegel’s is a self-revelation of the psychic background and, philosophically, a presumption. Psychologically it amounts to an invasion by the Unconscious. The peculiar, high-flown language Hegel uses bears out this view — it is reminiscent of the megalomaniac language of schizophrenics, who use terrific, spellbinding words to reduce the transcendent to subjective form, to give banalities the charm of novelty, or pass off commonplaces as searching wisdom. So bombastic a terminology is a symptom of weakness, ineptitude, and lack of substance.

Carl G. Jung, On the Nature of the Psyche, 1928


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