Ken Wilber on Freud, Jung, and Buddhism
Freud, according to Wilber, tends to reduce mystical or spiritual experiences to pre-rational regressions—essentially, seeing them as throwbacks to infantile states (e.g. the "oceanic feeling") rather than genuine spiritual insight. This is an instance of the lower mistaken for the higher—what Wilber labels the pre/trans fallacy. Wikipedia
Jung, on the other hand, is said to commit the opposite mistake: he elevates pre-rational mythic or infantile states by interpreting them as transcendent or spiritual breakthroughs. That is, he sees pre-rational as akin to trans-rational. Google Groups+1
So, in Wilber’s schema, Shunryu Suzuki’s feeling—that Jungian psychology aligns more closely with Zen—can be seen as an understandable perspective, but Wilber argues it actually perpetuates the pre/trans confusion.