new year, new sources

Supposed  to be taking a break as my brain got too mashed to write coherent sentences before xmas – knew it was all going downhill, as if writing with fingers disconnected from thoughts, which had disconnected from feelings… not very much in the spirit of this journey!
But found Cchristopher Hauke’s book ‘On culture and the [...]

Feedback????

I realise that while this blog is attracting a fair number of browsers, especially for the papers, which is of course gratifying, there are almost no comments. Perhaps this is because I am not inviting responses clearly enough, merely describing the stages of development of this thesis. That is of course my primary aim, to  [...]

methods or madness?

Time to start on the methodology chapter. Seems a conceptual thesis is an unfamiliar object in newuniversityland though is allegedly commonplace at older and European unis. So having to make my own maps. Have created a kind of Q&A to help me navigate, as follows:
1. What am I trying to do?

To propose a new [...]

You what?? Wrestling hermeneutics…. (#1)

Having decided to take a hermeneutic (an hermeneutic?) approach, I’ve been trying to find out what that, hmm, actually means.  Now I discover that a word I had barely bumped into is a seething repetoire of opinions, conflict, schools, approaches…. a door I hadn’t noticed opens on to Heathrow’s Terminal 5, crowded, badly organised, flying [...]

Nietzsche – good for a laff

I suspect Nietzsche is one of those writers you absorb by cultural osmosis – through rock lyrics and T shirts and graffiti (my favourite being the one about the abyss looking back) – on which basis I have always assumed him to be a miserable bastard, the Leonard Cohen of philosophers. But then I adore [...]

Jung & PR – the starting point

The more I wrote about contested versions of public relations:the more it seemed that something deeper than a difference of opinion underlay the division.  The first, and most familiar from teaching, was that promoted in core text books as PR ’servicing society’ ‘in the interests of democracy’ ‘the ethical guardian of corprorations’ etc; the second [...]

getting started

Ok, complete novice here, forgive technical/etiquette errors please.
Plan is to share ideas, insights, experiences concerning the work of Carl Jung, the construction of a Jungian ethics and its relevance to professional ethics in general and public relations ethics in particular – the subject of my PhD.
Said PhD now in second year – full time – [...]