Posted by Aunt B on May 27, 2000, at 14:32:14
In reply to (Freud vs. Jung) vs. (Darwin vs. Napa Valley), posted by Ginny on May 27, 2000, at 11:22:23
You probably are right about the irrelevance of these guys. Most people in Asia probably could care less about who they are. Somebody could have asked "What do you think of the full moon over the Pacific" and I would have answered. Little old ladies sometimes tire of knitting.
They are relevant insofar as they contributed to the development of today's psychoscience. People also question whether slavery is relevant to politics 130 years later, but a methodical analysis of how we got here must include an accounting for influences from the past.
Freud and Jung speculated about neurological functions that more recent studies have better identified. Homo sapiens sapiens' complex cerebral structure allows for more layers of conscious awareness. The deeper parts of our brains are more intimately connected with our actions than are the cerebral networks by which we percieve our motivations. Those deeper motivations, written as sublinquistic patterns in our thalmus and hypocampus are consistant with what was once called the unconscious.
On poetry and medicine, when I go to a physician they often recite some poem written by a pharmaceutical company to persuade me of the merits of their potions.
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