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Correspondence from Jane Wolfe to Karl Germer
5169 1/4 Fountain Avenue Los Angeles, 27, California
October 1, 1944 e.v.
Dear Karl:
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The enclosed carries my news.
But I want to mention a book recently come into my hands: The Psychology of Jung by Jolan Jacobi, Yale Terry Lectures 1943. It started my mind speculating about "Matter in its deepest metaphysical sense." I could get on the fringe of "The Wise Old Man", the "Magna Mater"—the second break from father & mother, that expression new to me. I pondered his diagrams: I traveled in and out and round about his circles, hoping to find an entrance. The upper half is a bit of a blank. Did I find the 'dark' so much more interesting, or is it simpler to grasp?
It took me back to a London mystic experience, when I drew near to what I called the Ego. This I likened to a bundle of sticks held together by the will, each stick representing a given quality; that when the will was withdrawn the bundle fell apart and each stick returned to its particular source—that nothing was lost.
Jung did enlighten me regarding the matter I mentioned in mine of February 16, speaking of 'running together along the edges', and 'objectifying' you and A.C. It is to be found in his analysis of 'Projections'. I mention this because I am happy to find myself corroborated: also to clarify my bungling efforts at interpretation.
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Oodles of love,
Jane
P.S. Cooper and I received letters from you the same morning. He promptly phoned me—being nearer than any one else—for an appointment that day. But it was the next week that I joined him at lunch. I hope to see him again the coming week, and may then have more to say. I would not see him a second time until he had seen Max [Max Schneider], and this he has done, as you no doubt know from Max.
Regina [Regina Kahl] wrote Jack [Jack Parsons] about him, but so far they have not met. Pasadena is difficult for Cooper, Jack will not call on him. If he really wants the work, he will go after it, says Jack, who himself is a very busy man these days.
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