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conclusive moment of proof finds that he has unknowlingly embraced and taken into himself some wider truth." So says the introduction, and I, with my usual bulldozer tactics, was ready to resent it. However, thanks to some past conversations with Avis, I was able to recognize this technique as the very essence of "girl-talk" as practiced by her most feminine friends, and bore with it. Surprise, it really WORKS! I found myself with a brilliant insight, nowhere stated in the book, that women are much more in harmony with their unconscious minds than men.

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That calls for a little review of Jungian terminology. Up to now, I had thought their "unconscious' to be a mere synonym for the Freudian "subconcious", but it is truly as much a vital part of an individual's life as the concious and infinitely wider and deeper. The "subconscious of Freud is merely a sort of glory-hole of repressed desires", according to the introduction; that I had in fact understood, though I would have called it the cellar where we keep the monsters caged. And for many men it turns into just that with a sister in one of the cages, endlessly plotting her brother's destruction .

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Dr. Jung's own Part 1 is one of the best. It is called "Approaching the Unconcious", but the pace is set by the first section on the importance of dreams. To Jung, this top priority, since dreams provide us with a steady series of views into our unconcious if properly examined. And properly means in the context of the dreamer's regular life; the identical dream in two different persons might mean totally unrelated things. For example, to a Freudian a key is ALWAYS a phallic symbol (ecch!) and it might be that to a Jungian - but dreamed by a person burdened with responsibility it becomes the symbol of his burden. Jung did not live to see it, but his ideas are now being systematically verified – by the physiologists, of course, as the psychologists are MUCH too busy propping up the Pavlovian conditioning myths to pay much attention. (Did you know that keeping a person from dreaming will bring on an excellent imitation of delerium tremens? Jung didn' know that, but would certainly have felt this experimental fact to be right in line with his reasoning).

Dr. Henderson's Part 2, Ancient Myths and Modern Man, merely seems to be a demonstration that nothing important in

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