The self-styled liberal columnist Michelle Goldberg alerts us to the sweeping scope that Trump's recent measures against American higher education in her column titled "Trump Wants to Destroy All academia, Not Just the Woke Parts" (dated February 14, 2025) in The New York Times:
Now, the liberation of the ego from endogamous kinship libido involves the liberation of libido from being married within the psyche, figuratively speaking, to the image of the mother (or mother-figure) as well as the liberation of libido from being married within the psyche, figuratively speaking, to the image of the father (or father figure).
In this way, the liberation of the ego from the image of the father (or father figure) within the psyche opens the psyche to the subsequent experience of stage (8) of the eight stages of consciousness that Neumann delineates.
As I mentioned, Tolkien worked through stage (8) through writing his three-volume fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.
However, we should also note that "the Ring" on the three-volume fantasy novel's title also calls to mind Neumann's account of stage (1) of the eight stages of consciousness, involving the image of the ouroboros (the serpent with its tail in its mouth), the self-contained whole.
Now, at this juncture, I want to note here that Ong liked to call attention to the Greek etymology of the word "catholic" - as expressed, for example, in the Nicene Creed that Roman Catholics recite at Sunday Mass - one holy and apostolic church. The word "catholic" is formed from two Greek words: kata (throughout) + holos (whole) = throughout the whole. But what in the world would it mean for the Roman Catholic Church to be the church "throughout the whole"?
On the occasion of receiving the Marianist Award at the University of Dayton in 1989, Father Ong delivered the address "Realizing Catholicism: Faith, Learning, and the Future" that is reprinted in volume one of Ong's Faith and Contexts, edited by Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup (Scholars Press, 1992a, pp. 1-10) - in which father Ong discussed the etymology of the word "catholic" as meaning "throughout the whole" and mentioned the gospel imagery of leaven, yeast (Matthew 13:33; and Luke 13:21).
In any event, Ong explicitly referred to leaven in his 1952 essay published in French that he preprinted as "An Apostolate of the Business World" in his first book Frontiers in American Catholicism: Essays on Culture and Ideology (Macmillan, 1957, pp. 24-34 at p. 27).
Subsequently, Ong returned to the Greek etymology of the word "catholic" in his article "Yeast: A Parable for Catholic Higher Education" in the Jesuit-sponsored magazine America (dated April 7, 1990: pp. 347-349 and 362-363).
Ong's 1990 essay is reprinted in volume four of Ong's Faith and Contexts, edited by Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup (Scholars Press, 1999, pp. 169-176).
As an aside, I would point out here that the image of leaven, yeast in the gospels shows that the gospels can be interpreted as examples of what Jung refers to as fantasy thinking involving images and associative thinking.
Now, the American theologian Daniel P. Horan discusses Ong's understanding of the term yeast in his 1990 article, in his book titled Catholicity and Emerging Personhood: A Contemporary Theological Anthropology (Orbis Books, 2019, p. 4).
Horan's 2019 volume is part of the ongoing series of books on Catholicity and an Evolving Universe, under the general editorship of the American Franciscan theologian Sister Ilia Delio of Villanova University -- and published by Orbis Books.
Recently, Ilia Delio has published the book The Not-Yet-God: Carl Jung, [Pierre] Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole (Orbis books, 2023).
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