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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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!
What's odd is that the Quillette article doesn't mention the "Enlightenment" or "scientific values".
Yes, this! I don’t know a single research psychologist who doesn’t see Jung as hopelessly “woo”
Oddly revealing that the Quillette set seem too interested in elevating Peterson's Jung to the level of the Bollingens: mid-century Jungians at least were riding a paradigm that could construe a Jung in keeping with the times (hot tub Jung). Peterson simply reeks of nostalgia.
IIRC, even Anthony Storr’s short book introducing Jung mentions his flirtation with National Socialism.
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