Jung and the World

Jung and the World

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Jung and the World
Jung and the World
Alchemy

Alchemy

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jon wilson
May 08, 2022
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Sometimes I get an image from alchemy, of an old Alchemist working at his furnace or his stove, and putting coals on the fire, and mixing substances together, and forging metals in the fire, and working with the prima materia and trying to turn lead into gold. And writing can seem like a work like that, a kind of experimental or alchemical work of makin…

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