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Actually - and I confess this to you with a struggle - I have a boundless admiration for you both as a man and a researcher, and I bear you no conscious grudge... My veneration for you has something of a "religious" crush. --Carl Jung, in a letter to Freud, 28 October 1907 A transference on a religious basis would strike me as most disastrous; it could end only in apostasy, thanks to the universal human tendency …

…there must in fact be a collective unconscious to explain how it is that the dreamer's associations sometimes fail. A guess as to why Freud himself failed us in the regard is that the collective unconscious smacks of fantasy, not science. Jung, however, was wise enough to admit he was plunging into a new realm "somewhere between earth and heaven," as Hamlet puts it. From there, Freudians must look like ants "swarming in the square."