Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and Carl Jung

Clearly, Carl Jung makes people happy…. Click this link for more about Jung’s carving on his 75th Birthday Archetypal Symbolism in Possessing the Secret of Joy Southern Literary Journal Alice Walker’s fifth novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), marks a new beginning for an author/activist who explicitly appropriates Carl Jung’s archetypal patterns of the…

Synchronicity: “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”

From the Wikipedia entry on synchronicity One of Jung’s favorite quotes on synchronicity was from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, in which the White Queen says to Alice: “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”. ‘It’s very good jam,’ said the Queen. ‘Well, I don’t want any TO-DAY, at any rate.’…