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Some Reflections on the Work of C. G. Jung and Walter J. Ong (REVIEW ESSAY)

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For the sake of discussion, let's say that my analysis of the psychodynamics involved in each male viewers experience of watching mom-son porn videos on the internet is fundamentally correct. Now, the goal of stage (7) of the eight stages of consciousness that Neumann describes is "the liberation of kinship libido." In my analysis of the psychodynamics in each male viewer's psyche, I have only posited the interaction of the image of the mom figure in the fantasy skit and the male viewer's image of his real-life mom in his psyche. Does this interaction automatically result in "the liberation of kinship libido" in his psyche? No, it probably does not.

This observation brings me back now to Jung's elaborate processing of materials from his unconscious that he evoked through his practice of active imagination. I said that he employed certain ways of processing the materials from his unconscious that he had experienced through his active imagination. I also said that he engaged in such elaborate processing to contain his experience of unconscious materials.

Now, I suspect that most men who watch mom-son porn videos on the internet do not think that they are evoking their unconscious memories of their real-life moms when they view the fantasy skits in mom-son porn videos on the internet. Consequently, the men viewing the fantasy skits in mom-son porn videos most likely do not feel that they need to process their experiences of watching mom-son porn videos on the internet. Therefore, they most likely are not going to experience "the liberation of kinship libido" in their psyches as a result of viewing mom-son porn videos on the internet.

Ah, but are their ways that they could process their viewing experiences and thereby experience "the liberation of kinship libido" in their psyche? In other words, are there practices akin to Jung's practices of processing the materials from his unconscious? Frankly, I do not know if there are. However, if there are, those practices would be worth knowing about - and would be worth publicizing.

Ah, but the possibility of experiencing "the liberation of kinship libido" in one's psyche raises another consideration: Would men who have experienced "the liberation of kinship libido" in their psyches still want to view mom-son porn videos on the internet? If not, why not? If so, would their viewing pleasure in watching mom-son porn videos somehow be different? If so, how so?

In conclusion, Jung was a pioneering thinker. His account of fantasy thinking involving images and associative thinking can help us get our cultural bears in our contemporary secondary oral culture (in Ong's terminology). In any event, thank you for reading my extremely associative and wide-ranging essay.

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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