Christopher Kimberley
Interesting - although I'd say Freud can still very thought provoking -
I'm thinking of "Moses and Monotheism" -
which is informed by some very good sources of his (and our) day
(Brested) as well as some more "theosophical" (Arthur Weigall) -
I've recently been reading Professor Jan Assmann's "Moses the Egyptian"
- which is an update on the Freudian thesis -
although i was just advised that Assmann is himself criticised by other
Egyptologists - for his "Judeo-Christian" bias -
so guess even modern scholars have their resuppositions - present
company excepted : )
"Love and do what you will"
Mogg
wrote:
> mandrake wrote:
>> He also talks about how archeologists and curators are as much victim
>> to interpretive fads -
>> see for example the plaques that appear in conserved sites - so noone
>> is perfect - and archeologists themselves have a murky history -
>> remembering that Margaret Murray was/is a very eminent example
>> (possibly).
> Academia is as prone to giving eminence to 'guru' figures as any other
> society. If one considers the work of the Freud dynasty and, also of
> Jung, both schools being of considerable and continuing importance the
> analysis of magic, ritual and belief.
>
> Neither Freud's nor Jung's was conducted with the rigour that would be
> expected today nor even in their time. This must cause us to question
> all of the work that has been done 'downsteam'. For example, many
> generations of parents of children with autism or intellectual
> disabilities where stigmatized as a result of Freudian concepts (i.e.
> that they were directly responsible for their child's state). A kernel
> of this point of view continues to prevail in continental Europe.
>
> Fundamental flaws must cause us to question to what extent work on
> magic within a Freudian or Jungian framework are loaded down with bias
> to an extent that would negate their validity.
>
> At the moment I would classify myself as a 'believer' in psychodynamic
> principles because much work hasn't been subjected to the critical
> thought in which with take so much pride.
>
> All the best
>
> Chris
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