Posts Tagged ‘Jung’

Jung’s NDE

July 13, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

Didn’t know this.  Fascinating:
On 11 February 1944, the 68-year-old Carl Gustav Jung – then the world’s most renowned living psychologist – slipped on some ice and broke his fibula. Ten days later, in hospital, he suffered a myocardial infarction caused by embolisms from his immobilised leg. Treated with oxygen and camphor, [...]

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Armageddon Archetype

March 18, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

There’s an interesting piece on Disinfo that is also a bit too critical of its subject – Michael Lewis’s book, The Big Short, and the concept that people in the financial sector were propelled by a kind of “mass delusion.”  The poster’s argument is that this is a kind of insanity defense  and absolves them [...]

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