Reading Deirdre Bair’s biographies — and the lives inside them
Biography read closely: the lives Deirdre Bair wrote, what the record shows, and where it runs out.
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Which Carl Jung Book Should You Read First?
Almost every list of “best Jung books for beginners” recommends the same title first — Man and His Symbols — without mentioning that Jung himself wrote only one of its…
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Puer Aeternus: Jung’s Archetype of the Eternal Boy
Two thousand years before anyone applied it to a grown man who wouldn’t commit to a job, a marriage, or a city, puer aeternus was a line of poetry addressed…
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The Red Book: Jung’s Liber Novus
Jung called it Liber Novus and kept it in a vault. It appeared in 2009 — six years after the standard biography was written by someone refused access to it.