Welcome to Henry Willoughby’s Social Justice Blog!
Henry is a social philosopher and author.
He is a four-time graduate of the University of Adelaide: BA, LLB, BA Hons, B Soc Sci. He holds three bachelor’s degrees: law, arts with an arts major in anthropology, and social sciences. He also holds a postgraduate degree in honours in arts in anthropology. He is looking to extend his scholarly studies at University, along with augmenting his knowledge through informal studies.
He is also a proud member of the formal University academic merit Golden Key International Honour Society which he qualified for and was subsequently admitted to in 2022, invited to join as per the requisite academic achievement.
Henry is passionate about engaged and collaborative scholarship, having studied many scholarly greats, past and present!
Henry welcomes your engaging comments, and any feedback on the blog posts, for a more mutually illuminating and enlightening collective dialectic, for all us socially mindful agents.
Henry has published works on social issues as they relate to the health and wellbeing of humans, animals and the environment: to aid in the development of humane social, political and philosophical praxis, in today’s world, and for the future.
His publications will soon be accessible and made available on Amazon and other major retailers, and there are more blog posts to come, so keep posted!
Links to other web-page content from Henry:
Lulu Author Spotlight: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/henrywilloughby
LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/henry-willoughby-ab9571135
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsJiwQVjLF81-_vyWZOcSNQ/featured
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/henrywilloughby9/
Caveat: Not trying to be misunderstood!:
Some of my synthesis may sound and seem, prima facie, a little bizarre and/or eccentric, or somewhat unfamiliarising to people from a Western background, as my studies in anthropology have inevitably involved adapting to non-Western centric meaning-making. The adopted scientific method, therein, of suspending my cultural judgement and cultural baggage, and immersion, in ‘foreign’ cultural fields through fieldwork and reading, digesting and absorbing the scholarly ethnographies of (other) anthropologists, is the reason for the supra native cultural reproduction in my writing. Along with this is a rather Jungian and Freudian consciously being in touch with subconscious forces and meanings, and social symbolism. All this—in my writing—is strategically apparent and enriching. Also, some of my narratives are contextual, and some more contextual than others. All things considered, my narrativising synthesis is pertinent and functional meaning-making, nevertheless. We must encourage each other to become less culturally insular, through domestic and foreign memetic immersion.
To introduce, in foregrounding, the next related topic definitionally and conceptually — the collective unconscious. For those unfamiliar with it, it can be formulated as such:
“The collective unconscious was induced by Jung from his analysis of dream symbols and psychopathological symptoms. It is an inherited archive of archaic-mythic forms and figures that appear repeatedly in the most diverse cultures and historical epochs”1
I am privy to the phenomena of a person’s attachment to the collective unconscious, as formulated in Jungian psychological philosophy. This enormous breadth, plethora and tapestry of meaning-making for individuals across vastly and radically different and diverse cultural socialisations and experience, but with common, more universal underpinning mythical patterns, occurs, in part, through an uploading of meaning from the collective unconscious in tandem2 with the personal subconscious. These manifestations inform the unique meaning and knowledge systems that are attached to and part of an individual’s personal power(s).
Furthermore, my writing is in a very much embryonic and/or conceptual phase in some places, but still displays novel and informed synthesis.
I deploy, at times, some well and thoughtfully crafted, exigent neologisms where I deem a need and social demand therefore; language evolves; some will involve merely an extension of a suffix-neologism like surveiled, as rather self-explanatory neologisms, others involve an entirely new word covering and signifying a new concept, of which, will be explicitly explained and defined.3
Crucially, the blog allows for me to express myself in a media-medium with a written format, without needing, and freed from, the rigorous scholarly conventions of formalised academic work, expression and writing, whilst still advancing sophisticated synthesis and critical engagement with innumerous, to give the hyperbole, social issues. The blog acts as a supplement to the other range of mediums for enriching communication: articles, essays, precis, op-eds, editorials, expositions, journals, reviews, books, presentations, podcasts, and videos.
Herein, I write for academic populism, and free-spirits in a quasi-Nietzschean4 vein.
Life Coach Services:
I’m in the early stages of setting up a life coaching business, utilising my skills gleaned from my academic studies. I am reading through relevant information and will be seeking legal advice. I’m yet to incorporate, so i’m not taking on any clients until that process is complete!
I will be aiming to integrate personalised career and lifestyle skills optimisation so my future clientele are better able to take better predictive power over personal and interpersonal processes; this is achieved through empathic skills locating habits/habitus of the individualised self for each client, gleaned through my imparting of relevant and pertinent knowledge from studies of diverse social stakeholders (anthropology skills) as married with sociological theory (social sciences and sociology): elucidating the nexus between the uniqueness of the individual client and structural processes. Through my integrated academic skills I will be providing holistic yet tailored performance augmentation.
I am, at the least, in the early stages of being a true polymath: I have a wide range of integrated knowledge from reading scholarship, information and journalism on multi- / many disciplines. As a wise person once stated and formulated: “I have a black-belt in curiosity“, I hold and have interest in absolutely everything. The exigency of becoming polymaths is truly “building the self”. To quote Professor Steven Pinker:
“The more we learn about what we are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize our intelligence to protect the well-being of our species and our planet.”5
This invariably involves, results in, and is constituted by, personal and personalist success(es).
- See Audi, R 1999, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2nd edn, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 455. ↩︎
- There is in fact a trialectical interaction and interplay of the conscious mind, the personal subconscious mind and the collective unconscious, in the meaning-making processes. ↩︎
- This is a bit of an inspired ode to my high-school English teacher, commanding respect, who encouraged and inculcated creativity and free expression in students as such, inter alia. ↩︎
- Note the reflexive entitling of Nietzsche’s book Human, All Too Human: A Book for free Spirits. ↩︎
- Achology, last accessed 23 August 2024, ‘Unlocking the Mind: 21 Steven Pinker Quotes to Inspire Critical Thinking’, https://achology.com/psychology/steven-pinker-quotes/ ↩︎
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