Hartney Bay, Cordova In moving to Alaska and Cordova in the late 70’s, I had the good fortune to find a cabin for $50 a month; it had no electricity or running water, but it had a magnificent view looking for twenty miles up Prince William Sound. It was outside of town, in…
“He whose desire turns away from outer things, reaches the place of the soul. If he does not find the soul, the horror of emptiness will overcome him, and fear will drive him with a whip lashing time and again in a desperate endeavor and a blind desire for the hollow things in…
Cupid and Psyche Orazio Gentileschi 1628-30 Oil on canvas, 137 x 160 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Cupid and Psyche Sir Anthony van Dyck 1639-40 Oil on canvas, 199.4 x 191.8 cm Royal Collection, Windsor Sleeping Psyche Michelangelo Palloni ca. 1688 Fresco Wilanów Palace Museum, Warsaw Psyche Served by Invisible Spirits Luca Giordano 1692-1702 Oil…
Dear Sir, Your Ulysses has presented the world such an upsetting psychological problem, that repeatedly I have been called in as a supposed authority on psychological matters. Ulysses proved to be an exceedingly hard nut and it has forced my mind not only to most unusual efforts, but also to rather extravagant peregrinations (speaking from…
A substantial number of responses to the satirical piece about Sarah Palin that appeared both in this Jungcurrents blog and the Anchorage Daily News have involved denigrating the writer (“liberal nut job”, “pinhead”, “Drink some more Kool-Aid Doc”). I am beginning to think the need to respond in this way is part the Palin Complex…
from The Red Book; W.W. Norton; 2009 Talk to Me: Filmmaker Charlie Kaufman By WNYC Culture Mon, Nov 16, 2009 This is an audio recording from the Rubin Museum’s “Red Book Dialogues”, where Jung’s Red Book was first presented. Charlie Kaufmann is a screenwriter, director and producer. His movies have included Being John Malkovich, Adaptation,…
From The Asheville Jung Center Len Cruz, M.D. May 15, 2010 Dream: Jung and his father are in a mosque. They find themselves kneeling and beginning to bow. Evidently, Jung’s father bows fully allowing his head to make contact with the floor. However, Jung stops within a millimeter of the floor. He will not permit…