Eternal sunshine of the unconscious mind

New Scientist by Amanda Gefter | Nov. 12, 2009 (News Report)

On Saturday, at New York City's Rubin Museum, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (who wrote Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation) and Jungian psychoanalyst John Beebe took the stage and were handed an image that neither had seen before. It depicted a figure of a man with a ray of light flowing into (or out of) his chest, and a snake, its head reared, coiled around his feet. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Nov 12, 2009 - 10:29 AM PST
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - Nov 18, 2009 - 11:41 AM PST

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 by Fabrice Florin - Nov. 18, 2009
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 by Tom Jacobs - Nov. 12, 2009

There have been numerous stories on the publication of the illustrated diary of seminal psychologist Carl Jung, but none more interesting than this one, in which surrealist screenwriter Charlie Kaufman ("Being John Malkovich") reacts to one of Jung's colorful and infinitely interpretable illustrations.

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