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...JUNG AND THE STORY OF OUR TIME by LAURENS VAN DER POST 276 pages. Pantheon...
...Sigmund Freud was the Moses of Old Testament psychiatry, Carl Jung was its presumptive Joshua. Freud led modern man to the promising territory of the unconscious mind, but, destined to play the Wandering Jew, he was denied his share of milk and honey. Instead, there was the bitter pessimism of his Civilization and Its Discontents. Jung, the son of a Swiss Protestant clergyman, was born with a spiritual sweet tooth. He had a craving to heal the soul's wounds, to make a oneness of good and evil, darkness and light, masculinity and femininity...
...undermine Korea's economic achievement. Until about two years ago, Park was careful to rule in strict adherence to the constitution. He served as President for three four-year terms, winning elections that were considered reasonably fair. But after the 1971 balloting, when Opposition Candidate Kim Dae Jung won a surprising 46% of the vote, Park became discernibly more dictatorial...
...electoral college whom he favored. An extraordinary 91% of South Koreans voted in favor of the new amendment, a suspiciously high majority in view of the fact that nearly half of the electorate had voted against Park in 1971. "What else could they have done?" fumes Kim Dae Jung. "Park had guns on them all at the time...
Tokyo Kidnapping. Park used his enhanced powers to crack down even harder on his political opposition. Kim Dae Jung, who continued hyperbolically to brand Park an "Asiatic edition of Hitler," was abducted in broad daylight by the K.C.I.A. from a hotel room in Tokyo and spirited back to Seoul. Kim's kidnaping infuriated the Japanese, whose sovereignty had been crassly violated...