From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu 02 Feb 2006 - 12:16:04 GMT
>From: Chris Taylor <chris.taylor@ebi.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: Little Dutch Boy
>Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:05:58 +0000
>
[snip]
>>
>>Incidentally, Robert Wright, author of _Moral Animal_, an early popular
>>book on EP, says that popular authors have a better gut feel for EP than
>>any psychologist prior to the mid 1990s. That's because they are turning
>>on deep seated EP rooted emotions. Consider The Fellowship of the Ring as
>>an example.
>
>Lol. Is this not just something of an indictment of a century of
>psychology/psychiatry..?
>
_Fellowship of the Ring_ was an attempt at a modern mythology, using older
themes. If Keith wants to offer the generation of mythic themes as an
example of implicit EP, he might consider that Jung was pondering the
implications of an evolved mind for the human propensity to shared mythic
themes across cultures LONG before Tooby and Cosmides saved the day. He
might want to give Anthony Stevens (a fellow EP enthiasiast and bona fide
Jungian) a read.
Ernst Haeckel talks of a "phylogenetic psychology" in his _The Riddle of the
Universe_ published at the turn of last century.
Why is it that EP'ers feel the need to portray EP as salvation for
psychology? After a while this repetitive hyperbole starts sounding like the
health food/vitamin propaganda against the pharmaceutical companies.
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