The fine art of missing the point

[Keith McMullen]

A dead, genius, comedian whose quote demonstrates an unfortunate 
misunderstanding of the relationship between the "ego" and the 
"collective unconscious." He's not the first so-called genius,  nor the 
first dead man, to misuse those terms. The point isn't missed, it's just 
made quite poorly. Of  course, that whole concetualization of 
ego/collective unconscious is rather suspect. I'm surprised a genius 
would bother using them in the first place. I gotta admit though, that 
quote is a real knee-slapper.

joeallonby at gmail.com wrote:

> Mr Hicks, he was a genius.
>
> On 3/2/06, John Carvill <JCarvill at algsoftware.com 
> <mailto:JCarvill at algsoftware.com>> wrote:
>
>     > Mr. Hicks doesn't quite grasp the concept of 'collective
>     unconscious'
>     > if he thinks it can be 'tainted' by the ego.
>
>     Mr Hicks, he dead.
>
>     Mr Hicks, he was a *comedian*.
>
>