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Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) had a lifelong engagement with Gnostic texts, seeing in them a pre-scientific map of the unconscious psyche. He viewed Gnostic mythology — the Demiurge, the Archons, the divine spark — as projections of psychological realities that his own analytical psychology was rediscovering through clinical practice.
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- Jung encountered Gnosticism while studying alchemy and medieval Hermetic texts
- His Seven Sermons to the Dead (1916, published pseudonymously) is written in a Gnostic style
- The Red Book (written 1914–1930, published 2009) contains extensive Gnostic-influenced imagery
- Jung distinguished between Gnosticism's mythological expression and his own psychological framework