Tee hee
I applied Freud's theory of wish fulfilment as found in 'Creative Writers and Daydreaming' (a cracking piece of work, Freud was a far better literary critic than he was a physician) to 'The Devil Wears Prada'. That was the most fun I think I've ever had with academia, although watching that film 3 times was a pretty trying experience.
Partly because Freud himself says that theories of psychoanalysis apply most comfortably to 'less pretentious fiction' (better known to you and I as mindless crap)
Don't know much/anything about Jung sadly...
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Partly because Freud himself says that theories of psychoanalysis apply most comfortably to 'less pretentious fiction' (better known to you and I as mindless crap)
Don't know much/anything about Jung sadly...
Trash culture meets academia is always a good one.
Jung was pretty out there. I like his idea of 'racial memory' -
an inherited set of ideas of the world deposited in the collective unconscious.
When you're drifting off to sleep and jerk awake suddenly?
That's a response inherited from your monkey forebears,
who had to keep gripping on to the branch or fall.
If you're a Jungian it is, anyway.
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Thu 14 May 2009, 1:48,
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an inherited set of ideas of the world deposited in the collective unconscious.
When you're drifting off to sleep and jerk awake suddenly?
That's a response inherited from your monkey forebears,
who had to keep gripping on to the branch or fall.
If you're a Jungian it is, anyway.
makes sense
from an evolutionary perspective. I buy it.
In the same way that we all have a swallow reflex/anything reflex.
Don't see how that's racial memory though, so much as the chemical/genetic make-up of our brains that has been left after mother nature has performed her great act of topiary that cuts away all those daft apes incapable of staying awake whilst sitting on high branches...
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Thu 14 May 2009, 2:00,
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In the same way that we all have a swallow reflex/anything reflex.
Don't see how that's racial memory though, so much as the chemical/genetic make-up of our brains that has been left after mother nature has performed her great act of topiary that cuts away all those daft apes incapable of staying awake whilst sitting on high branches...