Word: jungly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jung Chang...
...imposed by each teller. Sometimes, however, a family will be lucky, and an aunt, an uncle or a cousin will be able to re-create the past with a precision that makes the narrative virtually incontestable, a true copy of what has gone before. That is the nature of Jung Chang's mesmerizing memoir. With a calm that suggests infallibility, she tells the story of her mother and her maternal grandmother and, by doing so, makes visible, intimate and immediate the pain and horror that are cloaked in the silence of China's recent history...
...Jung Park...
Like Bly and most of the other men's-movement figures, Keen is a kind of hairy-chested Jungian, having adapted Jung's scholarly theories of the inner journey to the American guy's daily struggle. Both Bly and Keen are also spiritual disciples of Joseph Campbell (Keen and Campbell often conducted seminars together), and all three are linked to that great facilitator in the satellite-dotted sky Bill Moyers. Moyers has conducted PBS interviews with Campbell, Keen and Bly, giving each of their books a video assist onto the best-seller list. What Oprah is to books like...
...World War II began, Albert Camus wrote in his notebook: "The reign of beasts has begun." In the past year or two, the reign of beasts seemed to end, in some places anyway: brilliant days, miraculous remissions. But as Jung thought, different people inhabit different centuries. There are many centuries still loose in the world today, banging against one another. The war in the gulf was in part a collision of different centuries and the cultural assumptions that those centuries carry with them. Camus's beasts are still wandering around in the desert and in the sometimes fierce nationalisms reawakening...