Psyche and the artist: Jung and the poet

I offer this paper in two guises, partly as a creative artist, partly as a Jungian critic. What I hope to do is to put some of my own work in the context of Jungian themes, and make some observations about how a Jungian understanding of the life of the psyche informs my own experience as an artist. It is by invoking the creative alchemy of artist and critic that my work introduces this volume of Psyche and the Arts.