What does it mean to be a Jungian?

I used to think I had a pretty good grasp of what it means to be or call oneself Jungian. I was drawn to analytical psychology because the notion that symptoms and behavior are meaningful made sense to me and seemed to me a more optimistic view of what it is to be human. Rather than focusing on pathology or seeing symptoms as being all about pathology, as I saw it analytical psychology looked for meaning and for the freedom that can accompany working to understand and take in the meaning of symptoms and behavior. Further the notion that in analysis, the analyst is in the soup along with the analysand and both are changed in the process of the analysis, for the analyst is indeed a wounded healer. Recently I was asked to be part of a group of feminist Jungians in an online seminar on feminism in the Jungian world. The seminar itself ended several sees ago but the discussion goes on. But it goes on in a way that I cannot really relate to with debates about the nature of humanism and other philosophical issues that seem far removed from the world of bodies and dream and fears and wounds that are after all the stuff of what we see and hear and deal with in the consulting room. 
Source: Jung At Heart - Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs