Carl Jung?

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Carl Jung? † 09/01/20 (Tue) 23:36:13 084bc3 No.844750

What do you guys think about Carl Jung? Specifically his view that religious symbols and mythological motifs stem from a collective unconscious of archetypes. I just read his book "Answer to Job" where he basically psychoanalyzes Yahweh and concludes his reason for becoming a man in Jesus was to make up for what he did to Job by becoming ego conscious. What do you guys think of Jung?

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† 09/02/20 (Wed) 00:11:38 17648d No.844753

>The motive and content of the popular movement which contributed to the

Pope’s decision solemnly to declare the new dogma consist not in the birth of a

new god, but in the continuing incarnation of God which began with Christ. Arguments based on historical criticism will never do justice to the new dogma; on the contrary, they are as lamentably wide of the mark as are the unqualified fears to which the English archbishops have given expression. In the first place, the declaration of the dogma has changed nothing in principle in the Catholic ideology as it has existed for more than a thousand years; and in the second place, the failure to understand that God has eternally wanted to become man, and for that purpose continually incarnates through the Holy Ghost in the

temporal sphere, is an alarming symptom and can only mean that the Protestant standpoint has lost ground by not understanding the signs of the times and by ignoring the continued operation of the Holy Ghost. It is obviously out of touch with the tremendous archetypal happenings in the psyche of the individual and the masses, and with the symbols which are intended to compensate the truly apocalyptic world situation today. It seems to have succumbed to a species of rationalistic historicism and to have lost any understanding of the Holy Ghost who works in the hidden places of the soul. It can therefore neither understand nor admit a further revelation of the divine drama.

>Answer to Job, p. 121

Lol

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† 09/02/20 (Wed) 00:55:23 5e2221 No.844756

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>>844750

Meh, Jung was a bit of a crank, he represents psychology's alter ego where anything goes, because the mind can contain anything.

It's the end result of the Lockean "tabula rasa" of the mind. If we are born with no innate knowledge, then the mind is filled with nothing but narratives that can endlessly shift in light of experience. In many ways it is already post-modern, fashionable nonsense. It's absolutely crackers that our society is so uneducated that a person like Jordan Peterson can hold himself up as an anti-post-modern figure, while being a devotee of Jung.

At the very least, we should be able to say that some innate knowledge exists, even if it goes no further than Descartes' epigram "Cogito ergo sum" (I think therefore I am). And even if we think that the conclusions Descartes draws from this axiom are far to sweeping and unsupportable, we must be able to draw at least some conclusions from the fact of our being, such as the legitimacy of rationality as a tool independent of narrative.

If we come to the conclusion that reason is a legitimate tool, then we can eject Jung from the academy, along with every "gender studies" and "social sciences" major. A better methodology needs to be developed or Jung's works belong next to those of L Ron Hubbard.

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† 09/02/20 (Wed) 01:26:13 647978 No.844758

Lexically pompous but ultimately less than pedestrian.

A fine example of a thinker.

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