Klavan and Peterson
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Interesting but frustrating. I feel so sorry for Klavan here, that he can’t get Peterson over the hurdle, but he’s doing God’s work trying to.
I’ve always thought that Jungianism is one of the most dangerous intellectual contaminants. It practically leaves you incapable of thinking without continual references to it. I always figured it’s what messed Peterson up. (It also happens to allow him to offer good, practical advice.) But watching Peterson in this interview, he seems to have fallen into scientism. Maybe that was the whole problem from the beginning. Maybe he never had an epistemology that allowed him to consider faith and revelation, and the whole “maps of meaning” thing was an effort to construct a belief system without belief. Usually Jungianism is a disease, but in this case is it a symptom? I don’t know, but it will literally take divine intervention to unknot his mind.