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To summarize, Jung believed in the idea of a collective psyche (collective unconscious), and that human culture isn't a primarily external phenomena taught between individuals, but something that is unconsciously received from the this collective psyche.
This has lead to all kinds of cool fictional ideas, such as the 'hero's journey' archetypes, or Warhammer 40k's idea of The Warp, or any number of sci-fi focused around the idea of human psychic development, around the idea that we will evolve to be able to access this collective unconsciousness.
However, it also leads to all kinds of strange things, such as the idea that these story archetypes are real human psychological profiles (a la Jordan Peterson) or ideas like 'love languages'. As has previously been stated, it essentially operates as psychological Tarot.
Basically, Jung is extremely fun when not taken seriously or scientifically, but can lead to very serious categorization errors. He has been thoroughly discredited within both anthropology, sociology, and psychology, and the only reason he is ever read is purely from a historical academic perspective.
Jung is profound in the same way TV Tropes is profound. He recognized patterns in human story telling.
Oh and as the other people said he was extremely fascist-adjacent, in not flirting with it himself. All around a piece of shit.
Is Lacan cool I want to be able to psychoanalyze people
Lacan is cool if you want to justify your love of young women and men, I suppose. I know it is technically more complex than that, but I haven't met a single person who really advocated for Lacan that wasn't also trying to sleep with their students.