Oct 17
Dear Pitch,
There is an INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF JUNG that has a very active discussion list. If you want to join, contact Leslie Gardner at:
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The issues you raise would be most apropos for this group.
Best wishes,
Robert
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Aloha,
On 10/15/2010 5:36 AM, Segal, Professor Robert A. wrote:
(b) the context for Jung, as a depth psychologist, is the unconscious of the culture or, better yet, individual whose myth it is. Asking for, e.g., social context is asking for sociology or anthropology instead of psychologyy.
It strikes me that Jung's most recent and widespread
influence on popular occulture is via that four-fold,
paired opposites personality typology (introversion v.
extroversion, thinking v. feeling) formalized in the
Myers-Briggs assessments. Oracle reading and self-
exploration have taken this up. And it does, for some,
offer new modes of approach to and through oracles
well established in occulture.
I'm sorta tossing the "deity within/archetype" personality
assessment theme into the same pot here.
I also think that these personality typologies quickly
devolved into "what's your sign?" chat in popocculture.
So reflecting on self within a cultural unconscious
became yet another quasi-conscious expression of
that cultural unconscious--that prefers to stay hidden.
As for Jung being "anti-scientific," my sense of him
(derived from interested but not academically diligent
reading) is rather that he favored and promoted "New
Science."
He hung around with particle physicists the likes of Wolfgang
Pauli, after all. (Having hung around a few particle physicists
myself, I can tell you that many aspire to doing that sort of
thing, but most never get to.) He introduced concepts
like "synchronicity" into general intellectual discourse.
But Jung did not have that particle physics take on the world.
He was hunting for ways to "scientize" his psychologist's
take on the world. Hence, New Science...
Musing It's My Archetype & I'm Fixating On It! Rose,
Pitch
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