[lbo-talk] Capitalism & Psychoanalysis

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Jul 16 10:48:16 PDT 2004


Darrin Kowitz wrote:
>
> I have one book, "Archetypal Explorations: Towards an
> Archetypal Sociology" by David Gray, which relates Jungian psychology to
> Marx, Durkheim, Mead, and the rest of the obligitory crowd. It's shallow,
> but good for a sufrace scratcher. Anyone else ever thought about this or
> have any input?

In literary scholarship, while I have often found Freudian criticism annoying, Jungian criticism (or Jungian-influenced criticism) is simply appalling: something like eating a chocalate cake with ex-lax as the chocalate. Jungian interpretations of Paradise Lost are unbelievably grotesque.

Carrol



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