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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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!
You probably know this, but Richard Noll had a couple of highly controversial books about Jung and racism in the 1990s (I read them, but almost two decades ago).
(According to Robert Paxton,) Franco wasn't really a fascist though. But of course you still win the point on Mussolini.
Franco would today probably identify as a 'classical liberal'.
You all need to reread “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”
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