Wes, I am a close follower of Jung, and have been so for 45 years. Therefore I recognize his imperfections which he too saw and deal with as he could.
Nonetheless I find your criticisms of him sincere and well thought out, up to a point. In recognition of my bias favoring Jung I am gratified to find your well educated analysis. I search for your sort of analysis and rarely find it. I benefit from your critique.
Of course, my temptation is to offer a defense of Jung, but in this context it would be unproductive, and might come across as insulting, which is the last thing I want to risk.
Although I see where I consider your separation from what you think his thinking to be, but for the reasons stated above I’ll not here attempt to address those thoughts. Another reason is, right or wrong, I sense a degree of emotional energy in your negative feelings toward Jung, and I care to do nothing to aggravate those feelings, if they are present.
I wish we could sit together with some quiet Mozart, a bottle of decent wine, and laugh together about the folly of man, including us, in our efforts to find and grasp truth. The we might gradually segway into our understandings of Jung.
One thing I must leave with you is my thought, supported by deepest feeling, that nothing can actually separate us from Source, God. We can only lose conscience awareness of that unbreakable bond.
Once more, please accept my gratitude for your expressing your deep thoughts without slipping into attack mode or preaching. You leave open the door to dialectic exchange. Most critics of Jung are not so emotionally mature, and well educated. You are a rare find.
Thank you.