Abstract
Carl Gustav Jung was interested in the oriental thought, however, he mentioned Zhu Xi rarely. Based on the respect of the reception history of alien thought, this article tries to compare the two of them. This article suggests that in the position of philosophy of consciousness, both Zhu Xi and Jung claimed only the coordination between “personality A” and “personality B” could accomplish the perfect personality. Because of insisting the Confucian earthly moralitism, Zhu xi emphasized the ultimate subject “Tai Chi” and “investing things and getting knowledge (Gewu Qiongli)” which contains the meaning of ontology and personal cultivation; but these valuable points were absent in Jung’s theory. On the other hand, as for the images of ”archetype” upon which Jung put considerable emphasis, we can’t find the counterpart in Zhu Xui’s thought, either. By the comparison of the two, this article tries to give Jung a fitting position in the spectrum of Chinese philosophy.