On the Problems of Psychology where it does not Recognise Existentialism.

It appears that the great myth of the modern Psychological Practice is that one can "lead a horse to water, but cannot make the horse drink it."

The existentialists would negate. They assert that one cannot "lead a horse to water", because only the horse can determine, for its self, where the water is.

Jung's philosophy of "unprejudiced objectivity" was predicated upon the knowledge that he did not KNOW, at least not consciously, where a patient would or could find water. He was proficient in helping other horses like himself to find their own water (and their own path towards that water), but he seemed rarely to be certain that he stood at one end of a bridge, as it were, and had "exhausted every available resource", hoping that it had not been in vain, so that his patient would simply have the humility to cross.

For all that we know, the patient would be better off falling off the cliff and landing upon another bridge, part of the way down, that the doctor could not have possibly seen.

dm.A.A.