Talk:Richard Noll

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More critique of Noll needed

This article could do with much more informed critique of Noll that has arisen in response to publication of The Jung Cult and The Aryan Christ. These books have, not surprisingly, provoked much discussion from those who wish to defend Carl Gustav Jung. Obviously, if such critiques were to be incorporated into the article,they would have to come from reliable, published source material. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:35, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I concur with this comment, and note that after the passage of six years there has not been much improvement. I've tagged the article with the "advert" tag, meaning that it reads like an advertisement for Richard Noll and not like a neutral encyclopedia article.86.42.138.154 (talk) 22:05, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I quite agree with these. The article needs some serious filling out. I am still wondering about something Anthony Stevens said back in the 'nineties:

"A careful study of Noll's books inevitably makes one question where the motive force of his personal animosity against Jung can have come from. Up to the time of publication of his book Vampire, Werewolves, and Demons (1992), in which Jung appears as a dedicatee, Noll was apparently well disposed to him. Then an enantiodromia seems to have occurred, similar to Jeffrey Masson's change of heart towards Freud after he was rejected by the Freudians, having come up against Anna Freud and Kurt Eissler at the Freud Archive. Are there similar skeletons in Noll's professional cupboard? I suspect there are, and I think we should be told."

We should indeed be told, but, I am still searching in vain, not only in here, for anything new on this subject. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fixlein (talk • contribs) 21:01, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This article is so clearly an advert that I'm surprised it has been up for so long. The main editor of the article is very likely the subject of the article, as evidenced by the in depth, but unreferenced bio details in the first two paragraphs and the massive overlap in the subject matter of other edits by the same user on other articles, and the particular areas of interest of the subject of this article. Many of the references later in the article are to items posted online by the subject themselves which is cause for concern given the likely identity of the person making the references. Documents created online by the article editor are hardly quality references. 121.200.7.109 (talk) 17:28, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is this the vengeance of an unsuccessful training candidate?

"In the past decade there have been a virtual epidemic of multiple personality disorder (MPD) in North America, and this has stimulated interest in the dissociative disorders. Jung did not devote any of his works exclusively to the topic of dissociation, nor to the related pathological phenomenon of multiple personality. Nonetheless, the process of dissociation lies at the very heart of his "complex theory." Jung is presented here as a heretofore unrecognized pioneer in the study of dissociation. His "complex theory" remains even today as one of the earliest and most comprehensive theoretical frameworks for understanding multiple personality disorder." These words announced a forthcoming lecture by Richard Noll to be given at the CG Jung Center in Philadelphia on 22/2/1990. What happened to him?