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...banquet held in the Great Hall of the People the night he arrived. Ford had finished his toast to the Chinese and was moving along the head tables clinking glasses. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger trailed in his wake. When they reached Mao's grandniece, Wang Hai-jung, a vice minister who arranged Kissinger's meeting with Mao in October, Kissinger leaned over to her and said: "I suppose you are going to ask us to make a formal request to see the Chairman." He got a smile. "Put your mind at ease," said Madame Wang. Mao summoned...
...from a red-canopied reviewing stand, surrounded by nine fellow African heads of state. Less conspicuous, but equally welcome, were dignitaries representing Zaïre's military suppliers, including U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Edward Mulcahy and China's Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin. In fact, Zaïre, the former Belgian Congo, has good relations with practically everyone in the world except the Russians. Mobutu and Moscow are at odds because they back rival regimes in neighboring Angola...
...clinician, Jung pioneered in word-association techniques and dream analysis. The characters in his own dreams included Salome, Siegfried, Elijah, and once, Freud as an Austrian customs agent. Jung the theoretician made his name synonymous with such terms as archetype, introvert and extravert. Jung the religious healer believed the goal of psychiatry was to release and develop the divine within each individual. He broke with Freud by placing unsatisfied spiritual hungers rather than repressed sexuality at the center of personality disorders. Freudians could always counter that those pangs are just another symptom of stifled libido...
...Jung rushed in where Freud feared to tread: into an exotic Zion built on scientific method but furnished by the ages. There was a place in Jung's world for the philosophy of ancient Asia and classical Greece, for the Gnosticism of early Christianity, for medieval alchemy, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, for Romanticism and the occult...
...best known of Jung's psychoanalytic heresies is his formulation of a collective unconscious−a timeless, unbounded level of awareness that exists outside history and culture. It is a kind of mother lode of mankind's mythologies and symbols, not rationally conceived but intuited through dreams and visions. A vast scholarship supported these theories. Whether or not one accepts them in the mystical sense, there is no denying the energy and intellect behind their authorship. Jung had the capacity to treat the universe as if it were an enormous crossword puzzle. Everything was interrelated; starting...