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Jung: Catnip for English Majors

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  Studying English literature, it turns out, is super useful when diving into Jung and dreams. Take, for example, this dream I had when I was thinking about my relationship to control: Dreamed J was a project manager and gave me a task to diagram or analyze the Longfellow poem: There was a little girl,             Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead.             When she was good,             She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid. Then P popped into my office wearing a casual outfit with a rainbow belt. I pointed out he might want to wear the tie in front vs in back, and he was pleased for the tip and adjusted accordingly. Suddenly my computer was remote managed, even though I hadn’t put in a ticket to IT. A guy I didn’t know from IT pulled up the chat window and typed something like, “WHOOPS, sorry, my mistake.” I typed back (or tried to—the delay was extreme, and my typos built up, words ran together, and for some reason, numerals kept a
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Insist on yourself

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 (Quote actually by Ralph Waldo Emerson, but on point.) I feel like it's late in a pandemic to start tracking a process, but who knows how long all this goes, when we get back to normal. I'm luckier than many: my job lets me work remote very easily. I'm not juggling family obligations and kids. My main hassle is boredom and the existential fear and despair that I think is universal at the moment. It forces you to face your habits, your coping mechanisms, and your fears. Which brings us to Carl Jung . Initially a disciple of Freud, Jung established his own analytic psychology that involves the concept of individuation . Who are you, really, what do you want, what are you dragging from your experiences and other people's influences, unconscious and otherwise? He believed in the interpretive power of dreams. I've been in this sphere longer than I realized. It's fueled the books that speak to me and the way I like to create. And sometimes things happen in such a way
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