A substantial number of responses to the satirical piece about Sarah Palin that appeared both in this Jungcurrents blog and the Anchorage Daily News have involved denigrating the writer (“liberal nut job”, “pinhead”, “Drink some more Kool-Aid Doc”). I am beginning to think the need to respond in this way is part the Palin Complex…
The Anchorage Daily News picked up the Jungian satire on Sarah Palin on November 19, 2010 and to date there have been 180 comments. I have noticed when I have visited other websites like the Huffington Post that articles about Sarah Palin seem to draw substantial (and usually emotionally charged) content. Until now, however, I…
When I awoke two years ago in Fairbanks, Alaska and heard that John McCain had chosen Sarah Palin as a Vice-Presidential candidate, I felt I had woken up in a never-ending dream, an improbable parallel reality. (We Alaskans knew she had to be better than the previous governor, Frank Murkowski, but that was a very…
Arianna Huffington August 1, 2010 06:11 PM Sarah Palin, “Mama Grizzlies,” Carl Jung, and the Power of Archetypes (excerpt) It is not Palin’s positions people respond to — it’s her use of symbols. Mama grizzlies rearing up to protect their young? That’s straight out of Jung’s “collective unconscious” — the term Jung used to describe…