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Opinion on Carl Jung? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

He's invoked and cited to lend credibility to a lot of pseudoscience in commercial team building training courses. That's my main exposure to him and it makes me very sceptical of his work's value.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. I had an insane teacher that forced everyone to take some personality test and talked about how important it was for her to work with one of the numbers. Then she never mentioned it again after a couple weeks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I dont mean to dismiss his body of work, which I'm largely unaware of, just to say that his name gets tagged on to Meyers Briggs and resold as summer kind of psychoanalytical science.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Like for what kind of stuff?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Personality tests. Getting gr groups of people to stand in different areas on a large floor map like a pentagram with different colours associated with different personality types.

"That's such a blue thing to say!"... when you say something...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That sounds painful

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Three days of it.