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In 1917 Hawaii, Jack London, facing death and self-medicated on opium, said to his wife, ‘Mate Woman, I tell you that I am standing on the edge of a world so new, so terrible, so wonderful that I am almost afraid to look over into it’ (cited on p. 44). On his desk, or perhaps in hand, was a marked copy of Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious translated by Beatrice Hinkle, a focal and historically significant figure in Jay Sherry's book The Jungian Strand in Transatlantic Modernism. Sherry reviews the many ways the Psychology of the Unconscious figured into the hands of America's most prominent writers and touches on how Jung also reached Herman Hesse, D. H. Lawrence, Kahlil Gibran, James Joyce, Georgia O'Keefe, Jackson Pollock, and Joseph Campbell.
After an opening review of Jung's family history, Sherry takes the reader on a Jungian tour of America that covers five distinct chapters: American Dream, Myth, Nightmare; Beatrice Hinkle; Greenwich Village; the 1920s; and Depression and Wartime. Each chapter careens and moves within and around the many people Jung met on his trips to America. It was quite difficult to follow all the relationships Jung had, and I believe Sherry knew that because he includes a sociogram of Jung's network in the appendix. Overall, the sociogram tracks 86 individual relationships to Jung. Each individual was assigned a colour based on their geographic location, and the size of the node represented how great their influence was in the expansion of Jungian thought in America. For example, forty-four individuals were associated with New York City, whereas twelve were in London and only three in New Mexico. The second criterion had a value that differentiated between a direct relationship with Jung, an indirect relationship, and a hearsay or literary relationship, as shown by the Jack London quotation above. From this network analysis, Sherry focuses on the largest nodes that include Beatrice Hinkle, Frances Wickes, and Margaret Naumburg.
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