For all practical purposes, what Jung refers to as fantasy thinking involving images and associative thinking can also be aligned with what the classicist Eric A. Havelock refers to as the Homeric mind, before the impact of phonetic alphabetic literacy, in his landmark book Preface to Plato (1963), and what Jung refers to as directed thinking involving logic can be aligned with what Havelock refers to as the Platonic mind, the outgrowth of phonetic alphabetic literacy.
In addition, for all practical purposes, what Jung refers to as fantasy thinking involving images and associative thinking can be aligned with the thinking in the Hebrew Bible, the transcription of what Ong refers to as orally based thought and expression in phonetic alphabetic literacy.
Concerning the Hebrew Bible, see my article "Walter Ong and Harold Bloom Can Help Us Understand the Hebrew Bible" in Explorations in Media Ecology (2012): pp. 255-272.
Now, I discuss Jung's account of fantasy thinking (involving associative imagistic thinking) in connection with the fantasy skit in mom-son porn videos on the internet in my OEN article titled "On Interpreting the Ubiquitous Mom-Son Porn on the Internet" (dated December 19, 2024).
Mom-son porn on the internet, like all heterosexual porn videos on the internet, always features the image of the woman's body prominently. Frequently the women who star in heterosexual porn on the internet have had breast implants to make their breasts more eye catching. The presumably male viewer is, in effect, invited to associate himself with the male(s) involved in having sex with the eye-catching woman playing the role of mom -- and to fantasize about having sex with the woman starring in the fantasy skit.
Concerning porn, also see my earlier OEN article "Texas' War on Porn, and Robert Moore's Theory of the Archetypes of Maturity" (dated December 6, 2024).
For further discussion of the Texas law in question, see Adam Liptak's article "Supreme Court to Hear Case on Texas Law Restricting Access to Porn: The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are at least 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds" (dated July 2, 2024).
But also see Liptak's more recent article "What Would the Founders Have Thought About TikTok and Online Porn? The Supreme Court will hear arguments next month in First Amendment challenges to laws banning the app and the shielding of minors from sexual materials on the internet" (dated December 23, 2024).
Now, according to the Wikipedia entry on "Internet pornography" (2024), internet pornography started in 1995 - in other words, in what Ong refers to as our contemporary secondary oral culture. In other words, heterosexual pornography on the internet involves the male viewers in engaging in a form of what Jung refers to as fantasy thinking involving images and associative thinking.
Ah, but are there other contemporary developments that encourage men and women to engage in what Jung refers to as fantasy thinking involving images and associative thinking?
Don't movies and television shows - and DVDs of movies and television shows -- also encourage men and women viewing them to engage in what Jung refers to as fantasy thinking involving images and associative thinking in our contemporary secondary oral culture (in Ong's terminology) - especially about the stars of the movies and television shows? For examples of fantasizing about female celebrities, see the website CFake.com, which is devoted to posting fake nude images of female celebrities.
And what about J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novels - and other fantasy novels as involving what Jung refers to as fantasy thing involving images and associative thinking?
And what about superhero comic books as involving fantasy thinking involving images and associative thinking?
Now, in 1945, long before he formulated his thought about our contemporary secondary oral culture, Ong was decidedly censorious about comic books. See his article "Comics and the Super State: Glimpses Down the Back Alleys of the Mind," Arizona Quarterly (Autumn 1945): pp. 34-48. In Thomas M. Walsh's briefly annotated bibliography of Ong's 400 or so distinctive publications (not counting translations or reprintings as distinctive publications), Walsh (2011, p. 194) noted that Ong's 1945 article was subsequently written up in Time magazine (dated October 22, 1945, pp. 67-68) and mentioned again in Time (dated November 5, 1945, p. 23).
In any event, because Jesuit formation is such a lengthy process, Ong, who had entered the Missouri Province's novitiate in Florissant, Missouri, in September 1935, was not ordained a Jesuit priest until June 16, 1946. For a survey of Ong's life and work, see my award-winning book Walter Ong's Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication (2000) - winner of the Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the field of Media Ecology, conferred by the Media Ecology Association in June 2001.
For a sharp but well-documented critique of Ong's censorious 1945 article, see Harvard historian Jill Lepore's bestselling book titled The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014; paperback edition, 2014, pp. 255-257); all of my page references here are to the paperback edition with its wonderfully revealing addition "Afterword: The Hyde Detector," pp. 299-322). In large part, Lepore's 2014/2015 book is an historically contextualized biography of the Harvard professor of psychology William Moulton Marston (1893-1947), the feminist and bigamist creator of the Wonder Woman comic books - and of the beautiful and busty and scantily clad Wonder Woman feminist character.
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