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Passport To Enchantment
In Zurich we have the opportunity to analyze many Americans who come to the Jung Institute and thus to observe the symptoms and results of a hiatus in culture (emigration of their forebears) and a loss of roots. In that case we are dealing with people whose consciousness is structured similarly to ours; but when we bore into the depths, we find something that resembles a gap in the steps — no continuity!
A cultivated white man — and beneath that a primitive shadow, of which the Americans on the average have far less sense than we do.
The effect of this is a certain restlessness and suggestibility, an uncritical susceptibility to currents of fashion, and a tendency toward extreme reactions. Of course this also has a positive side, which expresses itself in the average American’s sense of enterprise and openness to the world.
— Marie Louise v. Franz
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In 1979 I went to Normandy on a school trip. I stayed with a rebellious young girl named Lydie Rousseau. But she was such fun!
The English kids stuck together, the French did the same… meeting at the village public piscine every afternoon. Except me. Lydie and her French friends were too much fun and I was going to make the most of it. So I hung around with the French. I swear my grandma was there with me! I left 10 days later…
