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...Queen of Hearts, and the Cheshire Cat-all the fond friends of generations of children. But in this Alice, the prattling antic chums from childhood cast shadows that are dark, deep and unsettling. The shadows invade the characters and dye them in the colors of Freud, and Jung, and Kafka, and Dali, and Antonin Artaud, who conceived the Theater of Cruelty. Innocence has been lost, assuredly, but a revelation has been gained as the audience is taken on a journey through the murky, quirky labyrinth of the human psyche. Alice is an exemplary instance of how a classic...
...Carl Jung, who lived with great vigor until the age of 85, saw aging as a process of continuous inward development ("individuation"), with important psychic changes occurring right up to the time of death. "Anyone who fails to go along with life remains suspended, stiff and rigid in mid-air," Jung wrote. "That is why so many people get wooden in old age; they look back and cling to the past with a secret fear of death in their hearts. From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life...
...Carl Jung...
...suspect that his leading disciple was eager to assume the mantle of successor. That knowledge may have helped widen the breach between them. But the parting came for another reason. "It was my knowledge of Freud's triangle that became a very important factor in my break," Jung told Billinsky. "And then I could not accept Freud's placing authority above the truth. This too led to further problems in our relationship. In retrospect, it looks like it was destined that our relationship should end that...
...belated discovery last summer of 13 letters from Freud to the president of Clark University in Worcester, Mass., in connection with a series of lectures at that school during Freud's only visit to the U.S. (TIME, Sept. 5). In one letter, Freud wrote bitterly of Jung: "If the real facts were more familiar to you, you would very likely not have thought that there was again a case where a father did not let his sons develop, but you would have seen that the sons wished to eliminate their father, as in ancient times." Billinsky says he broke...