Thesis talk: What do I want to do?
Jan. 15th, 2007 02:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7In short, I want to lay the ground work for showing that, philosophically, scientifically, and as an aspect of religious studies, magical practice is intrinsically worthy of study, when considered through some very specific lenses. To start, those lenses will include Jung and Frazer.
I have been whittled down to this, but no further. Here is my line: Magical Theory and Practice have intrinsic worth to academia, and they should not be dismissed out of hand.
Frazer defined Magic, and Jung explored and explained it. But Frazer saw it as a "primitive" mode, and Jung saw it as a means to a healthy psyche. Magic, viewed in a certain light, is a valuable thing, of itself, as much as anything can be, in that it leads to a full and beneficial existence. A different thing than Jung was able to say.
That is my thesis, and that is what I am writing.
Eikon Producere Klan.
Yes, I am aware that those are two different languages, and the tenses are wrong. Shut up, I'm tired.
I have been whittled down to this, but no further. Here is my line: Magical Theory and Practice have intrinsic worth to academia, and they should not be dismissed out of hand.
Frazer defined Magic, and Jung explored and explained it. But Frazer saw it as a "primitive" mode, and Jung saw it as a means to a healthy psyche. Magic, viewed in a certain light, is a valuable thing, of itself, as much as anything can be, in that it leads to a full and beneficial existence. A different thing than Jung was able to say.
That is my thesis, and that is what I am writing.
Eikon Producere Klan.
Yes, I am aware that those are two different languages, and the tenses are wrong. Shut up, I'm tired.
