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From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: DNA Culture .... Trivia?
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> >From: "Joe E. Dees" <joedees@bellsouth.net>
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> >Subject: Re: DNA Culture .... Trivia?
> >Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:02:32 -0600
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> >From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk>
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> > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:29:58PM -0000, Vincent Campbell wrote:
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> > > > Physicists today aren't giants, for the most part standing on
> >Einstein's
> > > > shoulders, biologists (and all variations thereof) are standing on
> >Darwin's
> > > > shoulders, psychologists (many rather reluctantly) on Freud's
> >shoulders etc.
> > > > etc.
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> > > Tell that to a gathering of academic psychologists and they'll string
> > > you up from the nearest lamppost, Vincent.
> > >
> >Many psychoanalysts still follow one of the biggies or other (Freud,
> >Jung, Adler, Erickson, Rogers, Maslow, Laing, May, Fromm, etc.),
> >or even the behaviorist model (Watson, Skinner, etc.) but there
> >have been a few revolutions in psychology since those days, for
> >instance cognitive psychology and evolutionary psychology.
> >
> How revolutionary is evolutionary psychology? Had no one else asked
> phylogenetic questions about the human psyche before EP stumbled into the
> picture as the drunken cousin of sociobiology? However erroneous, Jung even
> contemplated a phylogenetic component to the psyche long ago. Interestingly,
> evolutionary psychologist David Buss saw fit to include a contribution to a
> very Jungian leaning book called _Evolution of the Psyche_ (1999. Praeger.
> Westport, Connecticut. edited by David Rosen and Michael Luebbert) which
> includes contributions from Jungian author and evolutionary psychiatrist
> Anthony Stevens. Funny how the world turns back around.
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> And I wonder how puppet strings might differ between memes and complexes of
> Jung's personal unconscious.
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The book on the subject that I like best (so far) is THE ADAPTED
MIND by Barkow, Cosmides and Tooby. Jung did embrace an
individual as well as a collective unconscious, and even Freud
would have approved of cognitive psychology, since his work was
based upon an (admittedly primitive) physicalist model.
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