Mom-Son Porn on the Internet, c. G. Jung's Thought, and Walter J. Ong's Thought

Abstract

In my 3,600-word review essay "Mom-Son Porn on the Internet, C. G. Jung's Thought, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I succinctly highlight and critique Matt Richtel's article "It's Time to Talk About Pornography, Scholars Say: More adolescents than ever are watching it. What's needed, researchers say, are frank conversations and 'porn literacy'" (dated December 12, 2024) in The New York Times. To construct my commentary about and interpretation of the ubiquitous mom-son porn on the internet, I draw on the work of the Swiss psychiatrist and psychological theorist C. G. Jung (1875-1961) and on the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) of Saint Louis University.