글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은? In the formation of his psychological theory, Carl Jung was for a time strongly influenced by Patañjali’s Yoga Psychology. The period of influence was mainly in the 1920s, but by the end of the 1930s Jung’s main attention turned back to Western thought. This is especially evident if the cognitive aspects of his psychology, for example, the processes of memory, perception, and thinking are analyzed in relation to the corresponding concepts found in Patañjali’s YogaSutras. Such an analysis shows that at least one of the reasons Jung could not completely identify with Patañjali’s Yoga was the lack of distinction between philosophy and psychology that seems to typify much Eastern thought. In line with other modern Western thinkers, Jung claimed to follow the scientific method of keeping a clear distinction between the description of cognitive processes, on the one hand, and truth claims attesting to the objective reality of such cognitions, on the other.