by joe | Jun 12, 2011 | Jungian Thriller
My main character spends some time at West L.A. Division, sometimes called the jewel in the LAPD’s crown. In this scene, he walks up the street, and here’s what he encounters… Moody walked up Butler in a daze toward Santa Monica Boulevard. He stopped...
by joe | Jun 7, 2011 | Jungian Thriller, L.A./Jung Playlist
When I had first decided to write a Jungian Thriller set in Los Angeles, I remember attending a weekend conference called “Myths of L.A.” It featured many wonderful speakers and the overriding theme was the collective “shadow” of the city of...
by joe | Jun 3, 2011 | Jungian Thriller
From The Portable Jung, chapter six, “The Phenomenology of the Self…” Jung writes, “Closer examination of the dark characteristics–that is the inferiorities constituting the shadow–reveals that they have an emotional nature, a kind of autonomy, and accordingly, an...
by joe | Apr 5, 2010 | Jungian Psychology, Jungian Thriller
First, let me start this blog off by saying, to quote screenwriter, William Goldman, “Nobody knows anything.” That would certainly apply to me when it comes to Jungian thought. The subject is so vast, the knowledge and education needed to engage the subject so far...