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Alan George McLeary was a Canadian Psychologist and Video Game Designer

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Life and Career
McLeary was born on

Early Influence of Carl Jung (draft)
Captivated by Joseph Campbell, Claude Levi Strauss, got into Jungian Archetypes

Believed that the world was fairly simple, most archetypes have been done before, and it was simply the responsibility of the individual to 1. Identify what Big Stories they lived within as individuals and society and 2. Arrange these themes into their own circuits of meaning. Strauss’s Brochelige

Began to apply these archetypes to Brahman and Creation Myths, specifically why God would create anything at all. Created his own pseudo-religion, where he believed God split himself into the different Archetypes, then into humans.

Also applied them to understandings of Pedagogy and Personality. It is our spiritual responsibility to mediate between the Archetpyes within ourself

Influence of Freud and Lacan (draft)
Freudian and Lacanian psychology came to overtake his interests, as he believed both the frameworks Id/Ego/Superego and Real/Symbolic/Imaginary gave structure to his previous ideas.

Coined the concept of “Brahman’s Mirror Phase” The Psychoanalytic Method to understand unconscious forces also overtook him. He compared the Sex and Death drive to the [2 hindu gods], respectively.

Believed the goal of most actions are ways we manifest and “edit” our Superego and Imaginary. Technologies of the Self, Laws, Habits, ect. all became viewed in this light. He also saw this in Human Societies, our story telling and law making are all attempts to reconcile our Identities

For example, in Lacan he believed that we could “hack” ourselves through a shift in our own discourses. He believed that by maintaining a University Discourse, we are 1. Actively chasing our a, which is natural. 2. Producing our $, which is the goal of “drawing our circle”. Thorkus greatly disagrees with this alignment, saying that in Lacanian theory the University discourse is always slave to the master, and that the real resistance comes from the Analytic Discourse, which engages with the subject to produce new Master-Signifiers. Deleon, on the other hand, would believe that the Hysteric Discourse is the most revolutionary, as it is always on the horizon of new possibilities.

Clash with Professors / Reaction to the Subjective Turn (draft)
Believed that the idea Knowledge is Power can be liberating, not necessarily reductive of Subjectivity’s Agency

Thought endeavors of Scientificism were “Amazingly Ambitious but Tragically Destructive”

Began to write that all social sciences and philosophy, when reduced, reached majorly the same conclusions.