ABSTRACT
From the vantage point of age, Tom Kirsch shares his experience of first coming to and reading Jung, beginning in his late teens and then extending through the years of his early development as a Jungian analyst to the present, some 50 years later. His essay includes an impressive meeting with Jung himself as well as an account of his early encounters with some of Jung’s written works. Just as, at the start of a personal analysis, the powerful images and affects of an initial dream may continue to reverberate for decades and become a living symbol in the psyche of the dreamer (a symbol that is never fully unpacked), so Kirsch’s initial experience of reading Jung as a young man seems to go on living vividly within his psyche.
