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Life Itself: Messiness Is Next to Goddessness and Other Essays
Life Itself: Messiness Is Next to Goddessness and Other Essays

    Life Itself: Messiness Is Next to Goddessness and Other Essays - Paperback

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    by John Boe (Author)

    "We all do and think funny things every day, only most of us edit them out of our consciousness, we don't share some of the most interesting things we think and do. For example, in 1981 I heard that my wife was expecting our third child, and I was suddenly filled with the archetypal need to make money."

    John Boe continues with the anecdote of how he came to be teaching English at the University of California at Davis, offering one of many delightful and personal snapshots of his humorous and often revealing approach to living. In these short, witty essays, he slices life along the lines of Jungian psychology applied to such everyday topics as holidays, palmistry, Shakespeare, movies, astrology, and more, while behind the humor is a satisfying glimpse of wisdom and experience. John Boe is a lecturer at the University of California at Davis, editor of Writing on the Edge, a newsletter about teaching writing, and a frequent contributor to such publications as East Bay Express, Unte Reader, the San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, and Psychological Perspectives.

    Table of Contents

    Part 1: Looking for the Meaning of Life

    Messiness Is Next to Goddessness

    Mistakes Were Made: Philosophy in an Off Key

    For Me and My Anima

    Religion and Basketball

    The Holidays of Darkness

    In the Palm of My Hand

    Don't Dream It, Be It: The Rocky Horror Picture Show as Dionysian Revel

    Marie-Louise von Franz and The Way of the Dream

    Pleasing and Agreeable: An Interview with John Freeman

    The Age of Pegasus

    Part II: Looking at Literature

    The Wolf in Jack London

    Simenon, Apollo, and Dionysus: A Jungian Approach to Mysteries

    To Kill Mercutio: Thoughts on Shakespeare's Psychological Development

    The Introvert in Shakespeare

    Cats and Dogs: A Theory of Literature

    Part III: Looking at Life Itself

    On My Back

    Papa Was a Gamblin' Man

    A Time to Be Born

    Notes: My Mother at the Piano

    Life Itself

    Number of Pages: 180
    Dimensions: 0.48 x 9.01 x 6.03 IN
    Publication Date: November 14, 2013
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