In 2011 Dickson Beale interviewed me about Jung's "Scrutinies" for The St. Louisan. You can see the video of that short interview by googling, "Rose F. Holt on The Scrutinies." I thought the video was no longer available so was happy to see it again. Thank you, Dickson!
Jung's self examination in his "Scrutinies" (included in THE RED BOOK) is extremely interesting and revealing of the tremendous conflict Jung experienced between his inner life and his outer life, his Number 1 Personality and his Number 2 Personality. (See MEMORIES, DREAMS, REFLECTIONS for Jung's explanation of the two personalities he understood inhabited his personality.) The entire RED BOOK can be understood as his work to resolve this conflict, his reconciliation to the real person he was, or, as he was to call it later, his individuation process.
Before Jung's time this process of reconciliation was primarily understood in traditionally religious terms. Jung does a translation of the work into psychological terms. After his six-plus years recording his experiences in his "Confrontation with the Unconscious," he spent a good deal of his life writing and speaking about the parallels and differences between the two approaches to the work.
