The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/Addendum to Lipton’s Journal: Difference between revisions

It turns out Mailer did in fact have a significant collection of Jung’s collected works, published in 20 volumes in its Bollingen Series by Princeton University Press. He also had other works about Jung, Aryan Christ’s and Frank McLyan’s biographies, as well as Jung’s own autobiography, mentioned above. From the Princeton series he had the handsome, durable paperback editions of ''Freud and Psychoanalysis, Symbols of Transformation, Alchemical Studies, Mysterium Coniunctionis, The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, The Development of Personality, Aion'', and ''The Practice of Psychotherapy''. (See ''The Collected Works of Carl Jung''. Eds. Sir Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, and Gerhard Adler. 20 vols. New Jersey: Princeton University Press,1957–1976). Most of these works were referenced in my study of the archetypal dimensions of Mailer’s fiction and nonfiction (''Acts of Regeneration'', 1981). Other related works, such as Claude Levi-Strauss’s ''From Honey to Ashes: Introduction to a Science of Mythology'', sat cheek by jowl with Mailer’s Jungian materials. Mailer certainly had a profound interest in the mythological and archetypal levels of his own work and Jung certainly helped Mailer form his own evolving theories of the psyche. These books in the Wilkes University archive appeared to have been read or at least well consulted, although they lacked the heavy marginalia, dogears, tears and creases, or other indications of having been deeply mined during many a lucubration. There is no way of telling when Mailer might have consulted any of them, although they started becoming available in the late 1950s. But there now can be no doubt about Mailer’s substantial interest in Jung’s studies and theories in what came to be known as “depth psychology".

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