Reddit reviews Cult Fictions: C. G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical Psychology

This is a regular question in the sub, answers and responses may vary (as in maybe there wont be much response because it turns up frequently?).

Noll's questionable. Dig around. His invective is closely tied into personal failings vis a vis Jung; he held up Jung as a cult leader at a certain point in time.

Here's our dear "cult leader" on his own pov concerning related matters:

>There is only one way and that is your way. You seek the path? I warn you away from my own. It can also be the wrong path for you. May each go his own way. I will be no savior, no lawgiver, no master teacher unto you. You are no longer little children...May each seek out his own way. The way leads to mutual love in community. Men will come to see and feel the similarity and commonality of their ways.

The Red Book, pp.125-126

Links below to previous posts in the sub concerning the topic and person at its center provide a variety of views and insight into the general concern. There's a bit there to sift through..

Richard Noll, Review of Peter Kingsley, Catafalque: Carl Jung and The End of Humanity

What do you think about Jung lying about the Solar Phallus Man?

Want to get off Mr Jung's wild ride?

Interview with a negative view on jung, what do you all think?

Found in a second-hand bookstore. Can’t wait to see what’s up with that title.

My Jung & Kierkegaard Collection

Young Carl Jung by Robert W. Brockway

I asked about it once in the community and got a short but orienting reply from one of the then more active mods:

Anyone read Richard Noll's works critiquing Jung? Impressions, points of view?

And this is probably the key book to take in that deals with Noll specifically (I haven't read it yet so can't comment on its contents but Shamdasani is the pre-eminent Jungian scholar of our time. The reviews on the page illuminate some of the details, worth a read).

Perhaps in some cases there has been a 'cult of personality'; Jung was powerful, persuasive, affecting. Perhaps aspects of that have continued at times? Or a kind of dogmatism has crept in around identities pegged to his ideas and creditability? Does finding heuristic value or accuracy in mapping ones own experience through Jung's ideas and illumination of a peculiar process he described and outlined also mean buying into a notion of a cult or intimations, imitations of such behaviour, putting the good dr on a proverbial pedestal?