Re: a kind of a reply to Jon
J J R (jrovira@juno.com)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 10:35:34 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998 10:57:41 +1100 Camille Scaysbrook
<verona_beach@geocities.com> writes:
>Scottie Bowman wrote:
>> Without subscribing to any Jungian nonsense about a collective
>> unconscious I feel there *is* a deep pool of common experiences
>> shared by most people in our culture & that it is into this that
>> the great writer taps.
>
>Why do you say it's nonsense when you appear to subscribe to it? I too
>think there is something hardwired into our minds that links us all -
>otherwise *nothing* could be universal - and I think Jung was just
>recognising this.
>
I have to agree with Scottie here--Jung is nonsense. There's a
difference between common experiences (feeling and watching the sun rise,
fallling in love, being betrayed) and a collective unconscious.
One critic of Jung said he didn't see how we've come out ahead by
construction one vast mythology to explain all smaller ones :)
The rest of your post was interesting--it's amazing how often people
start at the same place when they try to actually describe how
communication takes place...
Jim
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