[Dark Skies]

...what Freud referred to as the "mud-tide of mysticism

I often wonder if that wasn't (at first) merely a dig against Jung.

[livius]

I'm sure it probably was. But in general, it was true that Freud thought that he was expressing the new, improved and entirely materialistic view of man, something that unfortunately seems to have been adopted in a completely unexamined way by most of our culture.