A note on Carl Jung’s refusal to commit a fashionable stupidity

Source	https://tomruffles.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-note-on-carl-jungs-refusal-to-commit.html
Author	Tom Ruffles
Published	2025-08-27, 02:08 PM
Summary	For many years, the banner of the Society for Psychical Research’s website displayed a quotation by Carl Jung: “I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.” Although no reference was provided, it was a natural assumption that it came from an SPR publication. Numerous online sources attribute it to a paper he delivered to the SPR in 1919 which was printed as ‘The Psychological Foundations of Belief in Spirits’. Jung did give an address to the
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