Is Hegel an Alien?
Archive for April, 2006
Apr 29
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Apr 27
Jung Speaks With Mountain Lake
In Jung’s autobiography, Memories, Dreams and Reflections, he describes his encounter with the Native American chief, Mountain Lake, of the Taos pueblos in New Mexico in 1932: Read more
Apr 26
Jung on Freud
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Apr 21
Jung’s Statements About Suicide
Jung mentions suicide in his letters, often in response to specific questions regarding suicide from correspondents. It is here that we find Jung had quite specific notions of suicide and viewed the act as wasteful. Yet, the connection between his own clients and suicide goes unmentioned. Jung’s strongest statement is made to a “Mrs. N.”, a 47 year old woman concerned about the impact of her suicide attempt at age 21. This statement is contained in a letter dated 13 October 1951. Read more
Recent Reading List
- Future Psychological Evolution, by John Stewart
- Evolutions Arrow, by John Stewart
- Evolutionary Psychology: An Emerging Integrative Perspective Within The Science And Practice Of Psychology, by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair
- Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer, by Leda Cosmides & John Tooby
- Online Papers on Consciousness, compiled by David Chalmers
- Studying the Evolutionary Development of Species, NPR
- Recent Evolution, NPR
- Science and the Search for Other Dimensions, NPR
- Intelligent Design: An Ambiguous Assault on Evolution, by Ker Than
- Inheritance Is More Than Gene Deep, by Michael Balter
Apr 19
The Worst President in History?
There is a great article in this month’s Rolling Stone by the respected Princeton University historian, Sean Wilentz. He looks at the Bush administration from several angles. I’m most concerned about the current rage of uncritcal thinking and outdated views on science and Wilentz. From the article:
“While forcing federally funded agencies to remove from their Web sites scientific information about reproductive health and the effectiveness of condoms in combating HIV/AIDS, and while peremptorily overruling staff scientists at the Food and Drug Administration on making emergency contraception available over the counter, Bush officials have censored and suppressed research findings they don’t like by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of Agriculture.”
Apr 17
Does Personality Testing Work?
Over the course of the past century, psychology has been consumed with the search for magical tests that will reliably predict someone’s personality. Hermann Rorschach proposed that great meaning lay in the way that people described inkblots. The creators of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory believed in the revelatory power of true-false items such as “I have never had any black, tarry-looking bowel movements” or “If the money were right, I would like to work for a circus or a carnival.” (more…)
Apr 15
Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much
This article is from the New York Times (August 30, 2005). The most striking thing from this article by Cornelia Dean may be that 20% of Americans think that the Sun goes around the Earth:
When Jon D. Miller looks out across America, which he can almost do from his 18th-floor office at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, he sees a landscape of haves and have-nots – in terms not of money, but of knowledge. Read more
Apr 12
Why Sex?
“Sex — it gives us diseases, sucks away our energy, clouds our judgment and doesn’t even transfer our genes that efficiently anyway. So why have humans and most other animals evolved this bizarre, slightly dirty quirk of sexual reproduction? Why haven’t we all taken Woody Allen’s advice, and evolved to reproduce with someone we love, instead?” (more…)
Archetypal Memory and the Genetic Paradigm
John Ryan Haule is leading some of the most interesting discussions on evolutionary psychology from a Jungian perspective: “Jung dreamed the dream of the biological and human sciences at a time before a synthesis of those disciplines was possible. And he did so with amazing prescience. By the hundredth anniversary of his birth, evidence was finally coming in that the human body-and-mind is organized by inherited structures essentially indistinguishable from the archetypes. In the last thirty years, the evidence has become overwhelming. Therefore, the time has come to tell the story of this remarkable consilience between our Jungian psychology and a biology founded on Darwinian principles and augmented by genetics — what biologists today call the “modern synthesis.” (more…)