Jungians lay great stock on dreams and tend to see the characters in a dream as parts of the dreamer's psyche.
That's an approach that has little relevance in the real world of human activity where we have to deal with other people who have their own reasons for thinking and acting as they do.
A lot of Americans identify with and admire Palin because they see her as coming from a background similar to their own and living a life and having values similar to their own.
That surely does a lot more to explain her popularity than a pop Jungian trying to explain what part of his own psyche she represents.
“Jungians lay great stock on dreams and tend to see the characters in a dream as parts of the dreamer’s psyche. That’s an approach that has little relevance in the real world of human activity where we have to deal with other people who have their own reasons for thinking and acting as they do.”
Well stated. I think Kantian theory is in there somewhere—the belief that subjective perception creates objective reality. The stench of relativism permeates all of it.
As you point out in your second sentence, relativism always defeats itself because the relative is subject to the absolute.
(Relativism is the intellectual death knell of progressive ideology.)