What if Psychology Had Followed Jung Instead of Freud?

I wonder sometimes…

What would the world have been like
if psychology had followed Carl Jung
instead of Sigmund Freud?

What if we had made soul
more important than sex?
Archetypes more important than analysis?
Shadow more important than symptom?

Would therapy have become
a map of mystery—
instead of a manual for fixing?

Would we have asked,
“Who is the Self becoming?”
instead of,
“What is the patient’s dysfunction?”

Would the psychologist
have become a shaman of integration,
rather than a technician of behaviour?

Would the patient have been
invited to feel,
to descend,
to re-member themselves…

…instead of being medicated into forgetfulness?

Freud cracked open the idea
that the unconscious even exists.
That was no small feat.
But Jung?
Jung believed in its meaning.

Not just that the unconscious was a cesspool
of repressed urges...
but a cathedral—
waiting to be explored
with candle in hand.

But the world chose Freud.
It chose the mechanical over the mystical.
It chose diagnosis over depth.
It chose reduction over reverence.

And so the soul fell out of psychology.
Emotions became “disorders.”
Longing became “attachment issues.”
Mystical dreams became “fantasy.”

Jung once said:
"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you."

Freud gave the world labels.
Jung gave the world mirrors.

But we chose the former.

Maybe now,
in this age of collective breakdown,
we are finally ready to return
to the path not taken.