A few flashes of insight- not worth the Woo and reactionary politics
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“I was hoping for a podcast that looked in depth at the symbolic workings of the human mind- I was initially very excited to see a discussion from people who might have some expertise.
And I gave it a couple of episodes. It wasn’t thrilling, but there were a couple of interesting points.
And then it started to get ....more dubious. First an assertion in the Shape of Water episode that dreaming about monsters is a sign of a pending psychotic break; some other comments implying that anything out of the social norm was suspicious.
Then came the Synchronicity episode, which passed the bounds of dealing with the mind’s interpretation of the world:
They claimed that external events in the world change, just by thinking about them.
Not the interpretation of events; events themselves.
Which, typical new age beliefs, “the secret” “think about things and they’ll manifest” But worrying in people tasked with engaging with people’s mental health;
So I did some research- and one of the hosts is a regular contributor to Quillette: a website regularly dedicated to attacks on “multiculturalism” and promoting “scientific” racism, including, literally, claiming to classify the intelligence of races by skull shape.
The podcast host didn’t write these articles in particular - she instead wrote their pieces opposed to the transgender movement -
But it’s especially troubling given the controversy about Jung’s Nazi ties during World War II, including his attempt to draw a distinction between “German” and “Jewish” psyches (claiming Jews could not produce their own cultural forms), praising Hitler as “mouthpiece of the gods of old” vs democracy’s “upheaval of the unfit against attempts at order.”
The hosts’ words and bedfellows mean I have no faith in their ability to responsibly separate worth from dross in Jung’s legacy. I’ve downgraded it from “occasionally mildly interesting” to “likely to do real harm.””
Rev. Craig via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/09/19
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“...consistently cringe-worthy material whenever these three speak on topics to do with gender or sexuality. Race is a topic that they seem to avoid.
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United States of America ·
03/03/20
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