Word: jungians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...describes him as a Chekhovian figure, but in truth he is a little vague to the reader, and perhaps to her. She doesn't even know whether he is Freudian, Jungian or Adlerian. He is the name of what she clings to. Sarah understands her problem with merciless clarity: she yearns. "Yearn," she writes. "That is a word of such strength it makes me afraid." The specialty of the mediocre neurotic writer is to frighten a reader with his act. Sarah Ferguson does something far more subtle, far more relentless. She makes a reader enter not so much into...
...while she shares quarters with a young girl, also a middle-class escapee, who subsists entirely on baby food. Kate has a recurring Jungian dream about a long, cold struggle to carry a wounded seal to water and so save its life. Eventually she goes home, for the first time since her marriage more concerned about herself than about her body or her children. As a small emblem of independence she wears her gray hair untinted. "The light that is the desire to please had gone...
...great influences on modern dance, Graham's art is intensely psychological, shot through with Freud and populated by Jungian archetypes. For her, dance is the way to probe the mysteries of the psyche. It was a childhood experience that persuaded her that movement is more revealing than words. When her father caught her in a lie, she asked how he knew. "No matter what words may say," he explained, "movement never lies." That observation became her lifelong credo...
...resolves to "become like a little child again, a barbarian," a primitive, psychically joining with her father and all the Jungian forefathers. Step by step she regresses into a private wilderness, beyond the last camper's garbage, the last hunter's slaughtered bird, the last echo of the defoliating chain...
...doctor is both a Jungian and a woman, and Staunton finds the second fact more alarming than the first. Rightly so; the females in Davies' novels are some of the most fearsome in literature. But Jungians, with their emphasis on myth, are well equipped to deal with beasts in jungles, and soon Staunton has identified a number of monsters, including the manticore-a creature with the head of a man, the body of a lion and the tail of a dragon. It is himself, the barbed and beastly rationalist. The colloquies between patient and healer are of a high...