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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Clive Thompson

      Good thread on that terrific @NellieBowles profile of Jordan Peterson. One important take-away is that myth analysis (even Jungian informed myth analysis) shouldn't be left to the dingbats.https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/997492722633146370 …

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      Clive ThompsonVerified account @pomeranian99
      Here, @NellieBowles writes a superb profile of Jordan Peterson: https://nyti.ms/2k4Hya2  There’s the stuff he says to her that is obviously headline-generating, such as this soulless and (in his case, ideologically hypocritical) “enforced monogamy” stuff 1/x pic.twitter.com/IkaXQyfJfq
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2018

      You can be a Canadian who writes Jung-inflected myth analysis and teaches at the University of Toronto without being a dingbat. I mean, Northrop Frye did it. Because he understood myths existed in imaginative, not objective, realm.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2018

          The difference between Frye & Peterson is important. Both believed that primordial archetypes, found in myths & religious texts, shape perception. But Frye didn't claim these archetypes corresponded with objective reality. Nor did he think they were unchanging or monophonic

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2018

          I'm sympathetic to Peterson's claim that witches are real (which everyone is treating as pure whackadoodle). Imaginative constructs do have a type of existence. Numbers are real. The idea of human equality is real. But you can't touch either of them.pic.twitter.com/XRZwZfjZS7

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2018

          Yes, witches are real: they are a powerful imaginative construct that has shaped perception in west for centuries. Problem is Peterson has flat idea of witches (they stand for chaos). But idea of witches can be used for all sorts of purposes: including idea of female empowerment

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        1. Aryeh Cohen-Wade‏ @AryehCW 18 May 2018
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          Witches are real, Jeet. They're real and they live in swamps.

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        2. Gas Giant‏ @JupiterBFPOE 18 May 2018
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          Not exactly—our brains interperet some things consistently similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect …

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        1. DTwyman‏ @dtwyman 18 May 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          You didn’t mention Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth — the brilliant Bill Moyers series on PBS but that would also seem relevant. Herewith ‘The Hero’s Adventure’ from that series. https://billmoyers.com/content/ep-1-joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-the-hero …’s-adventure-audio/

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