Tag Archives: Jung

Carry On, Leonora: 3

Posted on October 3, 2015 by

(Here the piece returns to old obsessions about what story is, and what it is for. It’s no coincidence that at a certain point during this summer, sitting peering out at the Libyan Sea in the tiny Cretan port of … Continue reading →

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From Mere Bellies to the Bad Shaman, 2

Posted on August 10, 2015 by

(This second section juxtaposes in a somewhat speculative manner two key texts in the Western canon by Hesiod and Plato, using a favourite but hardly authoritative text by Julian Jaynes to get a handle on the argument, which is based … Continue reading →

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Equine or Ox?

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

The equinox has arrived at just the right time for this old Jungian loon to contemplate how the research leave is going, and lay out a few impulses as though they were plans. Essentially, the task is to set aside … Continue reading →

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xenochronicity

Posted on March 27, 2007 by

As Mark Smith, the original Post-Nearly Man, asks, ‘Moderninity, what is it?’ Xenochronicity is a term derived from two sources – Zappa’s xenochrony and Jung’s synchronicity. Definitions, gentlemen, please: ‘In this technique, various tracks from unrelated sources are randomly synchronized with each … Continue reading →

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