It is this proclivity to imitate rather than individuate that led Jung to be so negative about the prospect of institutes and training programs set up in his name. “Thank God I’m Jung and not a Jungian” is one of his more famous remarks, indicating his jaundiced view of people who form a persona by identifying with his ideas and methods. This may result in nothing but a lot of imitators, he judged, through whom his original ideas could be turned into stereotypes and recipes. When Joseph Wheelwright told Jung about the formation of a training program in San Francisco, Wheelwright reported, Jung stared at him as if “he had been hit by a Mack truck, and I said, ‘I see you really don’t want to hear about it.’ He said ‘To tell the truth I can think of nothing I would rather less hear about, Wheelwright’” (quoted in Shamdasani, 2004, p. 345). Jung was clearly allergic to imitators. ~Murray Stein, Individuation: Inner Work, Page 4.
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