95 Books In 2006, George W. Bush read 95 books. We will do better.

I’ve not read a lot of Jung and just picked this up because Jonathon has been on a Jung kick lately.

Jung’s take on psychoanalytic theory is interesting, but there were a few things I couldn’t get over, like the essayists’ unfortunate phallogocentric habit of signifying all of humanity in the word “man” and the recurrent negative characterization of certain civilizations as “primitive.” I guess that’s why I don’t like reading anything published after 1989. And do psychotherapists even use dream analysis anymore?

The application of psychoanalytic theory to art criticism is also interesting, but ultimately dissatisfying. But I liked the discussions of world mythologies.

-Nikki