Even more recently, Ilia Delio has published the review titled "From Catholic to catholicity: Higher education in an age of emergence" in the National Catholic Reporter (dated February 11, 2025):
In her challenging - indeed, visionary -- NCR review of Massimo Faggioli's new book titled Theology and Catholic Higher Education: Beyond Our Identity Crisis (Orbis Books, 2024), Ilia Delio takes Massimo Faggioli of Villanova University to task for being overly backward-looking in his view of theology and for not being sufficiently forward-looking in his view of theology.
For an essentially forward-looking view of Christian theology, see the American Jesuit Paul A. Soukup's 2022 book A Media Ecology of Theology: Communicating Faith throughout the Christian Tradition (Baylor University Press).
Now, what should we now say about Ong's editorializing above about stage (8) as representing twentieth-century personalism? I see no reason to undercut Ong's point about twentieth-century personalism as a manifestation of Neumann's stage (8) of the eight stages of consciousness.
However, in the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, I now need to add that Tolkien's development of the fantasy novel in The Lord of the Rings involves the rejuvenation of what C. G. Jung refers to as fantasy thinking involving images and associative thinking - as distinct from what Jung refers to as directed thinking involving logic.
My 7,800-word OEN article "About J. R. R. Tolkien's Fantasy Novel, The Lord of the Rings" is extremely associative as my way of paying tribute that what Jung refers to as fantasy thinking involving images and associative thinking.
In the present much shorter OEN encore article, I continue to pay tribute to the associative thinking that Jung characterizes as fantasy thinking, but at certain junctures in the present encore essay, I use what Jung refers to as directed thinking involving logic to make certain important points.
Now, here's the crucial question: "Will reading Tolkien's The Return of the Kings, or viewing the film version, help men and women today learn how to access the optimal and positive form of the King archetype of maturity in their own psyches?"
"Or is there a readiness factor involved as to exactly when individual persons are able to access the optimal and positive form of the King archetype of maturity in their psyches?"
Yes, to be sure, each individual person must first traverse stage (7) of the eight stages of consciousness before he or she is ready to traverse stage (8). Yes, fully traversing stage (7) includes experiencing the liberation of the ego from endogamous kinship libido in one psyche - liberation from both the image of the mother (or mother-figure) with libido in one's psyche, and image of the father (or father-figure) with libido in the psyche.
Now, in my 7,800-word OEN article "About J. R. R. Tolkien's Fantasy Novel, The Lord of the Rings," I also discussed the Swiss psychiatrist and psychological theorist C. G. Jung's dangerous self-experimentation with what he came to refer to as active imagination. Because Jung understood that what he was doing was dangerous, he took the precautions of writing out detailed records of the unconscious contents he had experienced in his Black Book and then of making works of art and drawings of what he had experienced in his Red Book.
Jung's Black Books and his Red Book represent his private and personal efforts to work through and contain the unconscious contents that he experienced in his psyche during his dangerous use of the practice of active imagination.
In my 7,800-word OEN article "About J. R. R. Tolkien's Fantasy Novel, The Lord of the Rings," I noted that W. W. Norton and Company published Jung's Red Book: Liber Novus (Latin for "New Book"), edited by Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani, in English as an oversized art book in 2009 and Jung's Black Books: 1913-1932: Notebooks of Transformation, edited by Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Martin Liebscher, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani, in English as a seven-book set in 2020.
Now, I am admittedly impressed by the quality of those two Jung publications in English by W. W. Norton and Company in 2009 and 2020 - so many years after Jung's death in 1961. I am also impressed by the ongoing publication of Jung's various public lectures over the years of his life in the Philemon Series published by Princeton University Press, under the general editor Sonu Shamdasani.
In my estimate, Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was one of the most extraordinary human beings ever to have lived.
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