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Near the start of his own journal Mailer also writes of his belief in a “stratum of the collective unconscious” that connects us all “independent of [one’s] will.”{{sfn|Mailer|n.d.|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/December 8, 1954/24|#24]]}} His earliest theories suggest many layers of the unconscious, each one buried deeper in the psyche and closer to what he was at the time calling “homeostasis” (the deeper layer of illogical, intuitive, and irrational power in the psyche),{{sfn|Mailer|n.d.|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/January 24, 1955/245|#245]]}} which opposes “sociostasis” (the layer of psyche where reason becomes rationalization and serves as “one of the bulwarks of society”).{{sfn|Mailer|n.d.|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/January 26, 1955/282|#282]]}} Mailer suggests that sociostasis and homeostasis are engaged in “trench warfare” as the “condition of the soul,” and it is “the deep collective truths of the soul” that will provide the “clue” to the time to come.{{sfn|Mailer|n.d.|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/342|#342]]}} | Near the start of his own journal Mailer also writes of his belief in a “stratum of the collective unconscious” that connects us all “independent of [one’s] will.”{{sfn|Mailer|n.d.|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/December 8, 1954/24|#24]]}} His earliest theories suggest many layers of the unconscious, each one buried deeper in the psyche and closer to what he was at the time calling “homeostasis” (the deeper layer of illogical, intuitive, and irrational power in the psyche),{{sfn|Mailer|n.d.|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/January 24, 1955/245|#245]]}} which opposes “sociostasis” (the layer of psyche where reason becomes rationalization and serves as “one of the bulwarks of society”).{{sfn|Mailer|n.d.|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/January 26, 1955/282|#282]]}} Mailer suggests that sociostasis and homeostasis are engaged in “trench warfare” as the “condition of the soul,” and it is “the deep collective truths of the soul” that will provide the “clue” to the time to come.{{sfn|Mailer|n.d.|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/342|#342]]}} | ||
Indeed, the conflict between the soul and society, which echoes Emerson as much as it does Jung, is the central theme and insight of ''Lipton’s Journal''. Mailer writes of “the cry of the soul against society” and “the anger of the soul” forced to “travel the roads of the social world.”{{sfn|Mailer|n.d.|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/45|#45]]}} Soul and society comprise but one dualism Mailer examines throughout his journal, the extreme opposition to the soul is totalitarianism, the greatest state of imbalance. He places “the soul’s insights against the world’s insights.”{{sfn|Mailer|n.d.|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/January 25, 1955/255|#255]]}} The individual’s soul is “part of the collective soul” that society opposes.{{sfn|Milar|n.d.|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/59|#59]]}} Mailer goes so far as to declare that a writer’s “style gives the clue . . . to what happened to the soul.”{{sfn|Mailer|n.d.|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/January 24, 1955/250|#250]]}} Mailer also concluded, as Jung did, that although the underlying symbolic structures of the archetypes endure, the symbolic forms are colored by, shaped by, the society in which one lives: “No matter how deeply we dip into . . . our collective wisdom,” Mailer writes, “the particular insights we return with to the world are colored by our S,” our dominant society.{{sfn|Mailer|n.d.|loc=[[Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/606|#606]]}} Most people probably know of the symbols and archetypes that unfold across millennia through the work of Joseph Campbell, but Campbell based much of his own work on his predecessor Jung, even if he carried Jung’s work further. | |||
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* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |author-mask=1 |date=1965 |title=An American Dream |location=New York |publisher=Dial |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |author-mask=1 |date=1965 |title=An American Dream |location=New York |publisher=Dial |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |author-mask=1 |date=1968 |title=The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History |location=New York |publisher=The New American | * {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |author-mask=1 |date=1968 |title=The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History |location=New York |publisher=The New American Library |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |author-mask=1 |date=1966 |title=Cannibals and Christians |url= |location=New York |publisher=Dial |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |author-mask=1 |date=1966 |title=Cannibals and Christians |url= |location=New York |publisher=Dial |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |author-mask=1 |date=1955 |title=The Deer Park |location=New York |publisher=Putnam |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |author-mask=1 |date=1955 |title=The Deer Park |location=New York |publisher=Putnam |ref=harv }} | ||