Yes, or they could clean up & produce knowledge rather than 'theory.' A gender studies which included behavioural science & looked at social imbalances statistically rather than from view of one sex being the victim of the other or gender hierarchies wld be valuable. @clairlemon https://twitter.com/GodDoesnt/status/1005291185248796673 …
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how much empirical evidence is there for the theories of Carl Jung?
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Not a lot as far as I know. I usually see him used in the context of ideological woo. And bible stories.
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And Petersonism?
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That was what I was implying, yes!
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Peterson is a Neo-Jungian, though, & reacting to other Neo-Jungians like Joseph Cambell. Campbell used the ideas of Jung in an effort to discourage violence based on religious differences, & in that effort, glossed over those differences. For him, all religions & sacred
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traditions were at least similar enough to be regarded as expressing the same underlying ideas, what Jung called archetypes, & Peterson is emphasizing the differences, while elevating Christianity to some place of prominence, for reasons which elude me, but which I suspect have
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more to do with his dislike of the way other Neo-Jungians have used Jung's ideas, in particular I suspect he is reacting primarily to Joseph Campbell and others of a similar perspective. Campbell achieved something in the late 80s or early 90s when Bill Moyers did a documentary
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He's also a religious conservative.
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My fear is that in practice balkanising research subjects fosters focus on method to justify independence. In other subjects people can focus narrowly without needing new dept - French history or financial economics or Renaissance art history.
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