1. So this piece criticizes me for saying Jung has fascist sympathies. https://quillette.com/2018/06/01/tired-old-myths-new-republic-slanders-jung/ …pic.twitter.com/yONcbph5n0
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3. And here is Frank McLynn's Carl Gustav Jung: A Biography. (There's a lot more along this line in McLynn's book about Jung & Mussolini)pic.twitter.com/ovsquRCYHy
4. Anyways, the literature on Jung is vast & my comments on his politics are perfectly in keeping with mainstream. What's odd is that Quillette sees Enlightenment & scientific values as compatible with Jungian mysticism.
5. The Jung stuff actually parallels the Enlightenment debate. I think a lot of Jung is goofy mysticism but there's a very interesting kernel of cultural & personality analysis in his work. So, like Enlightenment, he has to be seen as having a complex legacy.
6. But rather than seeing Jung or Enlightenment thinkers (Locke, Hume etc) as having complex legacy that needs shifting through, there's a real tendency towards hero worship & sidelining all criticism. Sad!
The greatest obstacle for Jung apologists are statements such as this (long after Nazi's were USB games the term Aryan: "The Jew is a relative nomad, never has had and never will have his own culture. . . . The Aryan unconscious is a higher unconscious than the Jewish.”
These are actually pretty straight forward to address. Let me start with the second of your quotes - "The Aryan unconscious is a higher unconscious than the Jewish." This comes from Jung's Collected Works, Volume 10, "Civilization in Transition", paragraph 354. 1/pic.twitter.com/o9HoIhPpmY
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