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2 Books, 1 Artist and 1 Song
Everything feels like it’s too much—I know I’m not alone here—and at the edges of this too muchness is a gnawing loneliness, an isolation so acute, it’s tugging my hair at the nape, trying to yank me toward depression.
But, I’m pushing back.
Mainly by over-indulging in good-for-me content, a healthier avenue to numb and distract myself from the horrors of the world, and the downfall of America.
Here are a few things I’ve been consuming that I think you might appreciate.
BOOKS
In 1957, at the age of eighty-one, Carl Jung began writing the story of his life.
The result is less a conventional autobiography than a psychological and philosophical memoir—a rich excavation of his inner world. Jung traces his early childhood, his break with Freud, and the evolution of his theories on the unconscious, archetypes, and the symbolic language of dreams. The tone is often mystical.
Rather than cataloging external achievements, the book offers an intimate tour through the landscape of Jung’s psyche—a life within a life—marked by depth, insight, and the uncanny feeling of inhabiting someone else’s inner world.
Sarah Blakewell is an absolute genius. I love everything she writes. This book is wonderful, and I’m reading it AND listening to it—a sublime experience.
This is a breezy, colloquial book, that places you at the cafe, and in conversation with Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Edmund Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and others. It’s both an education and a reality show. How refreshing to read about men falling out with each other! Part slam book, catty gossip sesh and a tour through modern intellectual history. It’s deeply absorbing.
Next up…ART
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