{∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} :: The Tip of the Big Mother Iceberg

To the readers of this blog,

You may find this video interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHyxnNAF8To

Silenus,

Thank you for your words. I hope you are doing allright wherever you are.

Take care.

Herr Hauser,

I understand that you are undergoing a great deal of suffering. I empathise with you. Yes, the world, as Schopenhauer said in plain German, is a gigantic prison. Some of the prisoners also act as the guards. So, to borrow a phrase from Lenin, what is to be done? Yes, I understand that it is not easy to get out of it, I have been around for more than three decades, and if it were easy, believe me, I’d have left long back like this lady:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/why-did-physically-fit-zoraya-decide-to-die-know-about-euthanasia-and-why-people-take-this-extreme-step/articleshow/109010856.cms?from=mdr

I wonder if Van Gogh would have opted for this if this “facility” were available to him. I don’t know. More vital question for me is-would I?
I don’t have the answer at the moment. However, I have come to see my body as a diseased animal,a mal-fuctioning machine. It keeps running on and on and I won’t mind that much but for the fact that one of the side-effects of its functioning in the world is a great deal of suffering.

But my case is not yours . Your mind is the most powerful one I have ever come across-it is truly dynamite. Please ,my humble request to you is that ,write a reminder application to the concerned authorities for a studio apartment. Your continued existence would be the salvation of many a soul in the time to come.I mean it.

Please take care!

Herr Hauser,

My suggestion would be that you should consider accepting the accommodation ,at least for the time being. That way you would get a much needed breather and later if the circumstances turn intolerable, you could leave it. But a room ,I think, is something you surely need to be able to gather your thoughts together properly.

Yes, the fact that Schopenhauer could predict that Abrahamic faiths would fail to gain traction here way back in the 1800s when the missionaries had just started to besiege the country, with very few data points,speaks volumes about his stature as a visionary. I would take the Germanic and Scandinavian  Paganism over the Middle-Eastern Monotheistic religions  any day of the week.

Please take care!

I had written:

It's an Industry over here: BioImperialism.  It should be hitting India soon... lots of careers to be made for all the aspiring professionals out to make a nice career off the starving masses (with psychiatric medications and Talk Therapy)  🥴

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11013-011-9233-z

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6198594/

The second link reminds me a little of what Carl Jung said while arguing a case against Christianity and Freudian psychoanalysis for the German Volk whose collective unconscious went much deeper and further back than could be provided by those who present the so-called Big Picture only from the Time of (King) David

See "The Aryan Christ" : https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/richard-noll-2/the-aryan-christ-the-secret-life-of-carl-jung/

I had thought that the publishers may have changed the title to "The Jung Cult"  (from THE ARYAN CHRIST    ).   Turns out that he published Aryan Christ only two years after The Jung Cult.   It may contain similar information.   As you can imagine, this material makes some people, such as rigid Cattt-LICKS, nervous:  New Book Shows Scary Side of Jung


From Wikipedia on Richard Noll:

Noll was praised for his "groundbreaking analyses" of Jung's life and work by cultural historian Wouter Hanegraaff in his comprehensive 1996 study of New Age religion. In a recent work, noting the absence of any reference to Noll's scholarship on Jung in the publications of prominent Jung historians in the decade after the backlash to Noll ended after 2005, Hanegraaff remarked, "Unfortunately, Noll's historical scholarship is simply discarded along with the 'cult' thesis . . . ." This absence has also been noted by other critics of Noll's work.

According to an article by Sara Corbett, "The Holy Grail of the Unconscious," published in The New York Times Magazine on Sunday, 20 September 2009, the Jung family's fear of "the specter of Richard Noll" was cited as a contributing factor in the decision to allow Jung's "Red Book" to be edited and published by W.W. Norton in October 2009.

The most significant academic criticism of Noll's scholarship and conclusions came from the historian of psychology Sonu Shamdasani. In his 1998 book Cult Fictions, Shamdasani disputed the attribution and interpretation of a central item of documentary evidence adduced by Noll, and also challenged the claim that Jung established a 'cult'.

However, documents deposited by Noll in 2014 in the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology in Akron, Ohio, reveal that prior to the publication of Noll's book in September 1994 Shamdasani and John Kerr held nearly identical views to Noll's concerning the cult hypothesis, the importance of Jung's deification experiences, and the interpretation of the contested document as authored by Jung. Shamdasani's letter to Noll of 29 July 1992 and Princeton University Press editor Eric Rohmann's fax to Shamdasani dated 11 March 1994 in the Cummings archives document this. Both Shamdasani and Kerr pressured Noll and the editors of Princeton University Press to remove the document prior to the publication of the book. "We cannot ask Richard to remove this document simply because you have also read it and interpreted it as being what Richard presents it as, i.e., the inaugural address at the Zurich Psychological Club," wrote Rohmann to Shamdasani.   Having lost this battle, Shamdasani later argued that the document was actually authored by Jung's associate Maria Molzer.    However, Noll himself had previously raised this as a possible alternative interpretation.

In a letter to Noll from Shamdasani dated 29 July 1992, which resides in the collections of the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology in Akron, Ohio, Shamdasani wrote: " . . . in focusing on the deification experience and the forming of a cult, you are more right than you realise." This quote was referenced without full citation in a book by historian of religion Carrie B. Dohe.

In a book review published on 17 January 2020 in the Los Angeles Review of Books classicist Gregory Shaw credited Noll for being the first to document in 1994 that Jung's concept of "individuation" was actually a recipe for "deification."

Further critics emerged among Jung's family, Jungian analysts and others who were self-identified Jungians. Franz Jung, the son of C.G. Jung, reportedly told a German journalist that Noll's work was "Mist" (bullShit).[35] In 1999 Anthony Stevens (Jungian analyst) added an "Afterword" to the second edition of his book, On Jung, entitled "Jung's Adversary: Richard Noll." Using the term "adversary" as an allusion to the Biblical "Satan," Stevens wrote that it was necessary to counter "the gravest of Richard Noll's charges" because, "I believe . . . he has been so effective in promoting his ideas that there is a danger that they will enter public consciousness as received wisdom" and tarnish "Jung's memory" and "the whole tradition of psychotherapy practiced in his name."

In a video of a 2014 classroom lecture on Jung posted on YouTube, University of Toronto professor and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson characterized Noll as "crooked." He also accused Noll of deliberately using "Nazi imagery" on the cover of his books to gain "economic utility,".

In a 1998 interview Jungian analyst and "archetypal psychologist" James Hillman was asked by interviewer Cliff Bostock what he thought of Noll's books on Jung. "I hate them," Hillman replied. "I think he's a ****."

Criticism of American Psychiatry during the "Satanic Ritual Abuse" moral panic of the 1980s and 1990s

He was an early public critic of the American psychiatric profession's complicity in the moral panic of the late 1980s and early 1990s concerning Satanic ritual abuse. "Except for the work of very few mental-health professionals, such as psychologist Richard Noll and psychiatrists George K. Ganaway and Frank W. Putnam, what little psychiatric writing has emerged on survivors and their therapy has uncritically embraced the literal truth of survivors' claims."

While searching the library system of Southern Jersey, I notice he wrote The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia And Other Psychotic Disorders (Facts on File Library of Health and Living), as well as American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox

Dementia Praecox

Dementia praecox (meaning a "premature dementia" or "precocious madness") is a disused psychiatric diagnosis that originally designated a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood. Over the years, the term dementia praecox was gradually replaced by the term schizophrenia, which initially had a meaning that included what is today considered the autism spectrum.

The term dementia praecox was first used by German psychiatrist Heinrich Schüle in 1880.

A little more research reveals that Richard Noll has had a career quite local to New Jersey.   I have heard of the place, Ancora Psychiatric Hospital ---- scary stuff:  It seems to be were the Kaspar Hausers of our society end up - and then some!   

From 1979 to 1984, Noll was employed in the resettlement of Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian and Hmong refugees for both Church World Service and the International Rescue Committee in New York City. From 1985 to 1988, Noll was a staff psychologist on various wards at Ancora Psychiatric Hospital in Hammonton, New Jersey.

In 1981 he was a summer research student at the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, the Institute of Parapsychology, in Durham, North Carolina. He was a research assistant for an unpublished study on the psychokinetic resuscitation of anesthetized mice.[1] In a "Reply" to comments to a 1985 article on shamanism, Noll revealed he had been a subject in the noted Ganzfeld parapsychology experiments conducted by Charles Honorton at the Psychophysiological Research Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., probably in 1982.