Re: Chapter 1 and New Introduction

From: Yrjo Engestrom (yengestr@ucsd.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2001 - 06:09:34 PDT


Right on, Kevin - that's what I meant.

Yrjo Engestrom

on 1.4.2001 23:31, Kevin Rocap at krocap@csulb.edu wrote:

> Dear Eric,
>
> Noting the several references to Jung's collective unconscious does seem
> to be a key to some evolving notions of "expansion."
>
> At the same time YE states explicitly that "the gateway to understanding
> expansion is neither the concept of collective unconscious nor that of
> perspective but the concept of activity."
>
> I take this to mean that YE finds the collective unconscious to be too
> "mystical" a notion, not rooted enough in both internal/external and
> mental/material interactions, nor susceptible enough to scientific
> explication. At the same time, it is as if YE sees the idea of a
> collective unconscious as at least a fertile imagining that opens the
> field of "expansion" for consideration, if not actually explicating it
> in the process, almost as though Jung was a science fiction writer whose
> collective unconscious fantasy pre-sages what later science can affirm
> and explicate more precisely.
>
> In Peace,
> K.
>
> MnFamilyMan@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Intuitively I am troubled that he wants to equate expansive learning
>> with Jung's social conscious. Nothing sound yet to mention any more
>> about this idea but would certainly appreciate if anyone could clarify
>> this 'expansive learning'concept.
>>
>> Eric
>



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