Jung as symptomatologist

The internal resonance between Jung’s psychological theory and Deleuze’s philosophy is uncanny. This chapter employs the concepts of symptomatology, percept, and minor literature, from Deleuze’s discussion of the critical and the clinical, to amplify elements of Jung’s psychology. According to Deleuze, ‘Authors, if they are great, are more like doctors than patients. We mean that they are themselves astonishing diagnosticians or symptomatologists’ (Deleuze, Logic of Sense, 237). Jung can be read as a symptomatologist, a ‘clinician of civilization’, who discovered the collective unconscious and prescribed a renewed relationship with wholeness as a remedy for the personal, cultural, and collective dis-eases of modern life. The percept is a type of vision or hearing. The chapter uses Deleuze’s concept of percept to reflect about Jung’s capacity to see the unconscious. Deleuze’s concepts of minor literature and minority politics throw light on the corpus of Jung’s writing and on the role of analytical psychology within the wider field of psychoanalysis.