Jung is approached in this chapter as an intellectual of the prophet type who saw himself and was seen as a spiritual leader calling for an internal revolution that was to transform man at the core. It is argued that he offered salvation to the virtuosi of the soul who followed him in his exploration of the unconscious, which he studied with devotion, being for him a sacred sphere. Unlike Freud, who regarded psychoanalysis as a medical instrument for healing mental disease, it is shown that Jung saw it as a tool for religious vivification; if Freud with his naturalistic outlook contributed to the disenchantment of the world, it is stated that Jung sought to reenchant it. Moreover, the binary structure of his thinking that differentiates the profane from the sacred is analyzed, showing that in Jung’s mind, the remote mythic past is associated with the sacred, whereas the present is associated with the profane. I characterize him therefore as an anti-modern intellectual in the romantic tradition who felt alienated from modern society because it had turned its back on the spiritual in man and only an immersion in the collective consciousness could bring back the meaning life lacks in “rational societies”. It is concluded that his views were shared by a part of the protestant mandarin class in German-speaking countries who felt threatened by a society in which the old cultural elite was being replaced by scientists and experts and that his ideas were received by a large and heterogeneous public taking thus a performative character.