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Browsing by Author "Farrell, Thomas J"

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    Claire Douglas' 1993 Biography of Christiana Morgan, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2020-08) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 4,500-word review essay "Claire Douglas' 1993 Biography of Christiana Morgan, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I discuss Dr. Douglas' book Translate This Darkness: The Life of Christiana Morgan. Christiana Morgan (1897-1967) and Dr. Henry A. Murray, Jr. (1893-1988) carried on an long extramarital love affair as they both worked together at the Harvard Psychological Clinic (he as the director). They were both impressed with Herman Melville (1819-1891), especially with his 1851 novel Moby-Dick and his 1852 novel Pierre, or, The Ambiguities -- and more generally with Romanticism and the Byronic hero. In addition each of them was analyzed by C. G. Jung in Switzerland. Christiana Morgan, who had some training in art, proved to be adept at consciously inducing images to arise in her psyche from her unconscious and then painting pictures of those visions. I use the larger conceptual framework of the thought of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong, Jr. (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) to discuss Romanticism and certain other points that Dr. Douglas mentions in her book.
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    Condoleezza Rice's New Book and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (2017-06-02) Farrell, Thomas J
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    Edward F. Edinger's 1995 Book on Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2020-07) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 5,625-word review essay "Edward F. Edinger's 1995 Book on Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I discuss Edinger's book Melville's Moby-Dick: An American Nekyia, the re-titled and revised and updated edition of his 1978 book Melville's Moby-Dick: A Jungian Commentary: An American Nekyia. In printed editions of the Homeric epic the Odyssey, Book Eleven about Odysseus' visit to the underworld is titled Nekyia. Edinger's thesis is that in the process of writing Moby-Dick, Melville visited the underworld in his psyche, figuratively speaking. In Jungian terminology, the underworld in one's psyche is known as the collective unconscious, home of the archetypes, including the archetype of the Self (capitalized to distinguish it from the lower-case self of ego-consciousness). I frame my discussion of Edinger's lucidly written and accessible book in the larger conceptual framework of thought of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955).
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    Forrest G. Robinson's 1992 Biography of Henry A. Murray, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2020-08) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 4,300-word review essay "Forrest G. Robinson's 1992 Biography of Henry A. Murray, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I discuss Robinson's book Love's Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray (Harvard University Press), which is about the secret extramarital love affair for more than forty years between Dr. Murray (1893-1988) and Christiana Drummond Councilman Morgan (1897-1967). Their secret love affair included serious interactions pertaining to the American novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891) and also included each of them being psychoanalyzed by the Swiss psychiatrist and psychological theories C. G. Jung, M.D. (1875-1961). However, in the opening section of my review essay, I discuss certain aspects of the life and work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955), including his graduate studies of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. In the final section of my review essay, I draw some lessons that we can learn from their secret extramarital love affair. But I also discuss the relevant psychology of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order.
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    Herman Melville's Centennial Poem Clarel (1876) and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2020-06) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 5,400-word review essay "Herman Melville's Centennial Poem Clarel (1876) and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I compare and contrast the competing views of Melville's Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, and of Melville, set forth by Walter E. Bezanson (1912-2011; Ph.D. in English, Yale University, 1943) in his 1960 critical edition of the 18,000-line poem and by the American Jesuit Joseph G. Knapp (1924-1987; Ph.D. in English, University of Minnesota, 1962) in his 1971 book Tortured Synthesis: The Meaning of Melville's Clarel. To help further elucidate Melville's life and work, I interject relevant points from the thought of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) and from other authors.
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    Hershel Parker on Herman Melville, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (N/A, 2020-06) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 4,700-word review essay "Hershel Parker on Herman Melville, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I discuss three works by Parker: (1) his 1992 first volume of his massive two-volume biography of Melville (from 1819 to 1851), (2) his 2002 second volume (from 1851 to 1891), and (3) his 2008 "Foreword" to the 2008 500-page edition of Melville's long centennial poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land. To discuss certain points Parker makes pertaining to Melville, I draw on the thought of the American Jesuit literary scholar Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) and the American Jesuit Melville scholar Joseph G. Knapp (1924-1987; Ph.D. in English, University of Minnesota, 1962), both of whom I had as teachers at Saint Louis University, the Jesuit university in St. Louis, Missouri.
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    In Defense of Walter J. Ong's Philosophical Thought: Against Timothy Mark Chouinard's Critique
    (This version was not previously published., 2020-09) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 7,300-word review essay "In Defense of Walter J. Ong's Philosophical Thought: Against Timothy Mark Chouinard's Critique," I first thoroughly elaborate how the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) of Saint Louis University developed his philosophical thought about visualist cognitive processing -- and how he never tired of referring to Eric A. Havelock's book Preface to Plato. Next, I turn to Timothy Mark Chouinard's succinctly stated critique of Havelock and Ong in his Ph.D. dissertation in English at Saint Louis University titled T. S. Eliot: A Philosophy of Communication for Literature and Speech. Because Chouinard also explicitly refers to the thought of the Canadian Jesuit philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984), I also bring Lonergan's thought into play in responding to Chouinard.
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    Jacob Neusner's Work, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (N/A, 2019-05) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 5,000-word review essay, I discuss Aaron W. Hughes' book Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast (NYU Press, 2016) in connection with the thought of Walter J. Ong, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Mircea Eliade, and Pope Benedict XVI, among others.
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    Matthew Fox's 2020 Reissued Book on Thomas Aquinas, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2020-05) Farrell, Thomas J
    My 3,600-word essay "Matthew Fox's 2020 Reissued Book on Thomas Aquinas, and Walter J. Ong's Thought" is about the Reverend Dr. Matthew Fox's 1992 550-page book Sheer Joy: [Four] Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality, which has just been reissued by Dover Publications. I discuss it not only in connection with the thought of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955), but also in connection with the thought of the Canadian Catholic convert and Renaissance specialist and Thomist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980; Ph.D. in English, Cambridge University, 1943), whose 1962 at times flawed book The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man is still controversial. In the second part of my review essay, I quote twenty passages from Aquinas' thought that Fox has culled from 52 works by Aquinas in Latin, and I suggested certain related reading in connection with each quotation.
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    Pope Francis' 2020 Book Let Us Dream, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2020-12) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 3.100-word review essay "Pope Francis' 2020 Book Let Us Dream, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I first highlight certain points from Ong's thought. Then I highlight Pope Francis' new 2020 book Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future, in conversation with the English journalist Austen Ivereigh during the Covid-19 lockdown. Among other things, Pope Francis says, "Covid-19 is our Noah moment" (page 15).
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    Pope Francis' 2020 Encyclical, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks' 2020 Book, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2020-10) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 8,400-word review essay "Pope Francis' 2020 Encyclical, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks' 2020 Book, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I first discuss Pope Francis' 2020 visionary social encyclical on social friendship in connection with the thought of his fellow Jesuit Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). Next, I discuss Rabbi Sacks' new 2020 visionary book Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times (New York: Basic Books) in connection with Father Ong's thought.
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    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' 2019 Book about Deuteronomy, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2020-11) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 4,500-word review essay "Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' 2019 Book about Deuteronomy, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I first discuss Ong's thought about the aural-to-visual shift in the human sensorium, and then I highlight Rabbi Sacks' discussion of listening and sight-versus-sound and certain other key points in his book Deuteronomy: Renewal of the Sinai Covenant, a volume in his Covenant & Conversation book series.
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    Raymond Benoit's Book about Romanticism, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2020-10) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my spirited 4,350-word review essay "Raymond Benoit's Book about Romanticism, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I discuss Benoit's book Single Nature's Double Name: The Collectedness of the Conflicting in British and American Romanticism (The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1973) in connection with the life and work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). In addition to highlighting each man's thought, I explore the potential importance of what Samuel Taylor Coleridge says about the imagination endowing certain people with the capability to balance or reconcile opposite or discordant qualities.
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    Ronald F. Inglehart on Religion's Recent Decline, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2021-02) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 3,700-word review essay "Ronald F. Inglehart on Religion's Recent Decline, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight, on the one hand, Inglehart's new 2021 book Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing It, and What Comes Next? (New York: Oxford University Press) and, on the other hand, Ong's mature thought from the early 1950s onward in his long and productive life.
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    Scott Newstok's 2020 Book about Renaissance Education and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2020-05) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 23,000-word review essay "Scott Newstok's 2020 Book about Renaissance Education and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I use Scott Newstok's book How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education as a springboard for reviewing the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955), reviewing Jesuit spirituality, reviewing the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, and reviewing my own life and work, before I turn to examining Scott Newstok's book in detail, chapter by chapter.
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    Simon Critchley's 2019 Book about Tragedy's Philosophy and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (N/A, 2019-06) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 5,200-word review essay, I highlight certain points in Simon Critchley's accessible and thought-provoking new book Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (Pantheon Books, 2019) and discuss them in connection with Walter J. Ong's thought. Because Critchley refers certain views he learned in his undergraduate studies in the early 1980s, which he started when he was twenty-two, I also refer to certain aspects of my undergraduate studies in the 1960s (1962-1966). In addition to discussing ancient Greek tragedies and comedies, Critchley also discusses ancient Greek thought in Gorgias, Plato and Aristotle -- and later philosophical thought.
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    Thomas Cahill's Book about Ancient Greek Culture, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (This version was not previously published., 2020-11) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 2,900-word review essay "Thomas Cahill's Book about Ancient Greek Culture, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight and discuss certain points from Cahill's book Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (New York and London: Talese/ Doubleday, 2003). Toward the end of my review essay, I turn to Cahill's remarks in his "Notes and Sources" (pages 275-284 at 278) about Walter J. Ong's book Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (London and New York: Methuen, 1982). Cahill sounds like he has some kind of beef with Ong. However, in my estimate, throughout Cahill's book he does not say anything that contradicts anything Ong says in his 1982 book or elsewhere.
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    William Potter's 2004 Book on Melville's Clarel (1876), and Walter J. Ong's Thought
    (N/A, 2020-07) Farrell, Thomas J
    In my 4,100-word review essay "William Potter's 2004 Book on Melville's Clarel (1876), and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I discuss in detail Potter's book Melville's Clarel and the Intersympathy of Creeds. In it, Potter discusses the 1991 edition of Melville's Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land. In addition, I use various aspects of the thought of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) to critique certain points of Potter's discussion of Melville's Clarel.