Psychoanalyzing Parapsychology with Jacob W. Glazier

Jacob W. Glazier, PhD, has a doctorate degree in Psychology: Consciousness and Society from the University of West Georgia. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Positive Human Development and Social Change at Life University and an online Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University – Steinhardt. He is author of Arts of Subjectivity: A New Animism for the Post-Media Era. His website is https://jacobglazier.academia.edu/.

Here he describes the marginal scientific status of both parapsychology (data looking for a theory) and psychoanalysis (a theory looking for data). He points to the specific role of Jacques Lacan in focusing on the linguistic aspects of psychoanalysis. He examines some of the internal contradictions with parapsychology, such as its emphasis on the empirical method to uncover data that illuminates the weaknesses of that very method. The role of the Trickster archetype is also discussed. He offers the possibility that a new animism, guided by psychoanalytic thought can avoid the pitfalls associated with superstition.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).

(Recorded on August 26, 2020.)

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Michael Scriven, Reasoning – Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery – https://amzn.to/35hNLs0

Jacques Lacan, Formations of the Unconscious – https://amzn.to/3bFvWo0

Sigmund Freud, The Unconscious – https://amzn.to/3ia4CQY

Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker – https://amzn.to/3bGmmAU

George P. Hanson, The Trickster and the Paranormal – https://amzn.to/35jMQaC

Jason Reza Jorjani, Prometheism – https://amzn.to/2FaSroJ

William G. Roll, The Poltergeist – https://amzn.to/35hkzBb

Jule Eisenbud, Parapsychology and the Unconscious – https://amzn.to/32ba00U

Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – https://amzn.to/2Fj9nsQ

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