Pynchon/Jung

[Adrian Kelly]

Hi,
I've been doing some thinking lately about Jungian presences  in GR mostly ,
but since Jung is so out vogue with most of the people in my neck of the woods,
I having trouble setting up useful dialogues.  Any of you know of a Jung
discussion group on the net?  If anyone else in interested in talking Jung/
Pynchon here, I'd be happy to.  I wouldn't call myself a Jungian  -- the
gnostic affinities disturb me, but nevertheless, upon a re-reading of some
Jung, I do find a lot in that is useful, and a lot of which has remarkable
affinities with some of the post-structural discourse that usually debunks
Jung.  While Pynchon takes a crack at Jung in GR re the collective uncon.
and archetypes, I'm not sure it was properly informed, especially considering
some of the Jungian spiritualism that pervades the rest of the book (I'm
thinking of Geli's vision).  Anyway, the unfortunate thing about Jung, then &
now, is his populist 'new age' (mis)appropriation, promoting the opinion that
his stuff just can't be that intellectually sophisticated (wrong), and goodness
knows, we need intellectual sophistication.  Sorry, I'm ranting a bit about
academic standards.  I'll stop by inviting comments and suggestions.  Any
closet Jungians out there?