Intelligence and Jung
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I think he did over stretch the concepts even here. Hiedegger and the whole post-modernist movement went even further as far as I can tell (but I’m assuming a lot and not about to pretend I’m not.)
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I think this highlights some interesting points. The problem people find with Jung is their dislike of anything that is non-measureable. Psychology is always treated with deep suspicion and rightly so (imo.)ktz wrote: ↑November 10th, 2018, 3:40 am To answer the original question you posed, I think intelligence and understanding Jung are probably orthogonal concepts, not particularly correlated, but certainly there have been some highly intelligent people associated with Jung -- you can check out Brainpickings bit on Jung's friendship one of the most famous physicists of the twentieth century, Pauli of exclusion principle fame. https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/03/0 ... auli-jung/
Jung operates in a bit in the realm covered by Godel's incompleteness in that we simply don't have the analytic tools to verify his thinking one way or the other. Not everything needs to be able to be verified by the scientific method for it to be valid, but then you sort of pursue the ideas at your own risk as they lack the comfort and consistency of a scientific basis in viewing the phenomena.
I enjoy some of Jung's thinking but he may have been a bit off his rocker -- check out The Red Book if you haven't already. I more or less view his ideas about archetypes and the collective unconscious with a bit of interest, but in my own personal experience his most compelling work was on synchronicity and his conception of the acausal connecting principle. It helped me during a time of spiritual growth when I had to contend with some unexplainable phenomena that occured to me. Though I'd understand if that revelation proves me to be off my rocker as well, but you can read more about the idea at this link. [see forum policies on links]
If we look at psychotherapy you’ll find that someone of a certain personality type will find better self-understanding by using a psychotherapist more aligned to their personality. When it comes to Jungian or Freudian attitudes what suits one person may not suit another. It is this individually catered therapy that makes the whole field quite unusual.
Speaking for myself I am extremely high in openness and tend towards breaking apart places where meaning is firmly established and attempting to construct meaning where no meaning appears likely. This has nothing to do with “intelligence” it is just something I do and exploring subjects in this manner has proven fruitful for me as well as frustrating.
The reason I sprang on H&N’s words about Husserl is becasue I see something very similar in Husserl’s words that I see in Jung’s. That is the focus on digging “below” the linguistic make-up we wear everyday in thought and action - it is necessary yet also distanced.
Whether people think Jung is ridiculous or not doesn’t matter. The depth and breadth and his scholarship are impossible to ignore and will remain an important chapter in future scholary works. I’d be lying if I said I thought everything he said was completely rational and without any hint of “woo woo.” Regardless there is more than enough of value in his work and there is literally no body of work out there I can fully agree with because to adhere to any singular view to me seems both dogmatic and wilfully ignorant (in the worst possible sense.) That said too, we all have to draw soem lines of distinction somewhere or we’d be unable to functionally navigate “through” the world.
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http://www.academia.edu/9305093/Husserl ... irical_Ego
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