What has Changed? Has Anything Changed? What Needs to Change? Does Anything Need to Change? Late‐Career Reflections ¹

Abstract The author reviews his 50 years' immersion in the world of international analytical psychology. He asks what has changed over that period, and what has not changed. What needs to change remains an ever‐present question. In terms of what has changed, he considers that his original classification of the schools of Jungian analysis needs review. He also discusses the “political turn” in Jungian analysis. Changes in understandings of the sexualities have taken place. The “style” of Jungian analysis and analysts has undergone significant alternation. In terms of what has not changed, he feels that contemporary analysts have not sufficiently distanced themselves from Jung’s racial biases, esotericism and elitism. He suggests that the worldwide expansion of Jungian analysis has, in its shadow, traces of missionary zeal. There are still issues to do with the “Jung cult” to be addressed. He concludes with a hope that, going forward, the general question of inequalities will be addressed.