this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2024
22 points (100.0% liked)

Ask Lemmygrad

801 readers
19 users here now

A place to ask questions of Lemmygrad's best and brightest

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml
GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml
SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
yogthos@lemmygrad.ml
22
Opinion on Carl Jung? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 4 months ago by QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml
24 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

All I remember is he comes after Freud, some of his followers are annoying, there’s a Marxist podcast that likes him called ‘the return of the repressed,’ and I don’t think Lukacs liked him.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] landlords_morghulis@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 months ago

From the little I've read of his work, Jung attempted to weld a kind of mental science to his fixation with animal mysticism. I think that produced something of an esoteric fantasy view of the world that feels romantic to some people, similar to our fascination with ancient mythologies. I think the modernish pop-psych stuff is an attempt to export those vibes as some kind of product.