Cover art: Carl Jung's Red Book
The Library of Congress is hosting a symposium June 19, 2010 to consider the significance of Jung’s long concealed Red Book, edited by mystic Sonu Shamdasani. I consider the popular adoration of Carl Jung a calamity, and have blogged frequently about his nefarious influence on the humanities and in education. Here are the links to my prior blogs with material gathered over a period of decades.
http://clarespark.com/2009/09/20/jungians-on-the-loose-part-one/.
http://clarespark.com/2009/09/20/jungians-on-the-loose-part-two/.
http://clarespark.com/2009/09/21/managerial-psychiatry-jung-henry-a-murray-and-sadomasochism-1/.
http://clarespark.com/2009/09/21/managerial-psychiatry-jung-murray-and-sadomasochism-2/.
http://clarespark.com/2009/09/22/managerial-psychiatry-jung-henry-a-murray-and-sadomasochism-3/.
http://clarespark.com/2009/09/25/on-mobs-teaching-and-jungians/
I also recommend that readers of these blogs consult the two books on Jung and Jungians by Richard Noll. They should put to rest any idea that Jung was not a racist and anti-semite. His books are The Jung Cult and The Aryan Christ.
[...] that Freud was even more disreputable than Marx (though both, unlike Carl Jung, were verboten. See http://clarespark.com/2010/05/10/jungians-rising/). This is an intellectual calamity, for Freud, who wrote about the horrors of civilized countries [...]
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