Jung & Pynchon

[dougmillison at comcast.net]

from the Wikipedia article on TRP:
In the late 1980s, author Robert Clark Young prevailed upon his father, an employee of the California Department of Motor Vehicles, to look up Pynchon's driving record, using Pynchon's full name and known birth date. The results showed that Pynchon was living at the time in Aptos, California, and was driving a 1974 Datsun (Young 1992). The improperly-obtained cancelled license subsequently found its way into the hands of at least two academics publishing scholarly work on Pynchon.



Mark:
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. 


> 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. 
>