The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/Addendum to Lipton’s Journal
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Robert J. Begiebing
In the 2018, volume 12, of The Mailer Review, I published an essay entitled “Lipton’s Journal: Mailer’s Quest for Wholeness and Renewal.” At the time of publication, the volumes by and about Carl Jung in Mailer’s personal library archives were not yet indexed or available to researchers generally. However, at the Norman Mailer Society Conference at Wilkes University in 2019, the newly created Mailer Reading Room and Collection (on the second floor of the Farley Library) was available for viewing and future research. Conference attendees could tour the replication of Mailer’s study and library from his home in Provincetown, Massachusetts. While there, I spotted the shelves on which Mailer stored much of his collection on psychology and anthropology. I would like to add what I found in Mailer’s “Wilkes library” to the footnote that I appended to my 2018 article on Mailer’s Jungian project of personal transformation through the self-exploratory processes of his private journal, a footnote which reads as follows:
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