### Making Sense of Carl Jung. A Talk by Paul Archer
There are many good reasons to be sceptical about the work of Carl Jung. His personal behaviour is poor; his political views are questionable; his scientific thinking can be nonsensical; his therapeutic claims are weak; and his notion of archetypes is sometimes confused. To put it in his own terms, this is the shadow side of Jung. And yet, in spite of all this, he remains one of the most interesting and influential thinkers of our times. The great challenges of his life are about bringing together evolution and the imagination; finding a new non-dogmatic approach to religion; and providing us with a challenging and meaningful ethical framework. There is a lot to be learned from Jung if we can hold on to the scepticism and the wisdom at the same time
Paul Archer is Chair of the Swindon Philosophical Societies, one of the longest standing philosophical societies in the country, meeting every week or so since 1963. He studied philosophy at Southampton University. He finds the philosopher’s fascination with consciousness a bit wearing. He is more interested in the unconscious. When not reading books, he spends much of his time training Citizens Advice throughout England and Wales in Employment Law
