Jung & Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

Hillman lived and practiced in California during crucial years of TRP's time there. He could have met him; been led to him.......

I have wondered, silently, if he .....went....to him professionally.

--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Doug Millison <DOUGMILLISON at COMCAST.NET> wrote:

> From: Doug Millison <DOUGMILLISON at COMCAST.NET>
> Subject: Jung & Pynchon
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 2:02 PM
> One thread of Pynchon's biography I
> wouldn't mind knowing more about is how he came to blurb a
> book by James Hillman, a Jungian:  _We've Had a Hundred
> Years of Psychotherapy--And the World's Getting
> Worse_   http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Years-Psychotherapy-Worlds-Getting/dp/0062506617
> 
> "Finally somebody has begun to talk out loud about what
> must change, and what must be left behind, if we are to
> navigate the perilous turn of this millennium and
> survive."--Thomas Pynchon.
> 
> Haven't read that book, but I did enjoy Hillman's
> _Re-Visioning Psychology_ and think other Pynchon readers
> might like it, too.
>