OK, yeah, that seems to be what his audience has recently made him. Based on reading his earlier stuff, seems to be a bit of an accident, wandering off his previous agenda. But I have nothing against this for opportunism.
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And, yeah, a center-right version of therapy culture directed mostly at boys and young men is a fine thing IMO and much needed at the moment.
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I’m planning to write REAL SOON NOW about Robert Bly’s failed attempt to do the same “man up!” thing from the center left, 25 years ago. I was peripherally involved in that at the time.
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This would be the next installment in my shadow-eating series (based so far on Bly’s book on that). His _Iron John_ was a valiant attempt to deal with shadow stuff around masculinity, and showed considerable promise, but failed for various reasons I don’t totally understand yet.
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I read the one abt eating the shadow I think you mentioned
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hmm it was something very similar to the type of thinking I have gotten from reading certain astrology books believe it or not
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I would say it is the exact same metaphysical framework regarding a certain kind of thinking i cant explain good
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He draws heavily on Jung, who runs strongly toward Romantic-Idealist monism, which is historical progenitor of most contemporary woo
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So I think you are right that there’s a significantly similar flavor there
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I explained my reservations about Bly’s use of Jung, and Jung’s use of Romanticism, here:https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/romancing-the-shadow …
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