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kim-packard's picture
Feb.04.2013
I never was one for Freud (who seems to have interpreted almost everything in terms of libido and the death drive) but Jung doesn't have a profound attraction for me either, maybe because they're both into dream analysis and I don't believe that symbols are universal. I somehow doubt that the...
kim-packard's picture
Oct.29.2012
One of the stories I read early on was the story of Ichabod Crane in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving who also wrote Rip Van Winkle. I took it as a straight-forward ghost story when I read it as a child, but remember feeling puzzled and dissatisfied by the open ending. As a more...