This is so interesting. I was at your lecture in Brunswick, and when you mentioned the connection between Claire Douglas and Salinger, I immediately thought of Franny Glass and wondered if her character had been inspired by Douglas because I remembered Franny as a spiritual seeker. I first read the Glass stories in my late teens and then revisited them in my thirties and saw them very differently. I think I'll have to reread them again now in my 40s to see what they reveal, especially in light of this connection to Douglas. Thanks for this post!
I appreciate your integration here. I have a couple of female or queer femme clients who are around the quarterlife time now, and these issues seem particularly profound still for them. Sexism, homophobia, transphobia and misogyny are so present everywhere that it seems to me if you combine being a woman (or perceived as female) with the quarterlife challenges, it's a lot. Maybe there might be a second book looking at quarterlife and intersectionality :-) I'm in awe of the women who surrounded Jung who thrived despite the problems and challenges - particularly interested in Kristine Mann, Esther Harding, and Eleanor Bertine after visiting Bailey Island in Maine this summer. They seemed to have a way to take Jungian ideas and make them their own and invite the great man into their place there.
This is so interesting. I was at your lecture in Brunswick, and when you mentioned the connection between Claire Douglas and Salinger, I immediately thought of Franny Glass and wondered if her character had been inspired by Douglas because I remembered Franny as a spiritual seeker. I first read the Glass stories in my late teens and then revisited them in my thirties and saw them very differently. I think I'll have to reread them again now in my 40s to see what they reveal, especially in light of this connection to Douglas. Thanks for this post!
Thank you Satya! Beautiful 💛
I appreciate your integration here. I have a couple of female or queer femme clients who are around the quarterlife time now, and these issues seem particularly profound still for them. Sexism, homophobia, transphobia and misogyny are so present everywhere that it seems to me if you combine being a woman (or perceived as female) with the quarterlife challenges, it's a lot. Maybe there might be a second book looking at quarterlife and intersectionality :-) I'm in awe of the women who surrounded Jung who thrived despite the problems and challenges - particularly interested in Kristine Mann, Esther Harding, and Eleanor Bertine after visiting Bailey Island in Maine this summer. They seemed to have a way to take Jungian ideas and make them their own and invite the great man into their place there.
...as the moon sits, full, in the masculine capricorn reflecting the last glows of a cancerian sun...
Thank you. I’ve read “Translate This Darkness.” It is a powerful yet very painful book. I did know know these connections.
I bought two copies of your book to give to my twenty-something, all-at-sea, sons. I’m sure the copies are sitting under dust on bedside tables.
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Love this very much, Satya.
Wow. Just wow. Thank you, Satya. Thank you so much. This is so important, as you well know.
This is a fascinating pulling together of threads - many thanks!