Archive | February, 2008

“The Undiscovered Self” by Carl Jung

27 February 2008 · Reading · Comments { 1 }

Writing in 1957, Jung is very concerned with the Cold War, Communism and the threat of nuclear disaster. However, his points seem very salient in 2008 as well. He is alarmed about ‘mass-mindedness’ — the reduction of individuals to anonymous, like-thinking units of humanity, to be manipulated by propaganda and advertising into fulfilling whatever function [...]

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“Intimacy” by Hanif Kureishi

13 February 2008 · Reading · Comments { 0 }

This was a strange book: all the reviews say how honest and uncompromising it is, and yet in the end I didn’t believe it. The basic plot is very simple. A man, Jay, is leaving his long-time partner, Susan, and their two young sons. The book is an extended inner monologue by Jay covering the [...]

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