ABSTRACT
Continuing the theme of Jung’s contribution to the humanities, in this essay, the Canadian analyst Craig Stephenson examines why and how his famous countryman, the literary critic Northrop Frye, read and reread Jung over a lifetime of scholarly pursuit. Offering a straightforward account of Frye’s initial enthusiastic use of Jung’s method, his subsequent criticism, disillusionment, and distancing, and his ultimate acknowledgement of Jung as a major influence on his writing, Stephenson gleans for us the most relevant material from Frye’s diaries, notebooks, and published works. What is presented for us, then, are traces of the lifeline of one man who was “bitten” by the creative unconscious and who found in Jung a guide to that underworld, a comrade and a worthy foe, one from whom he learned and with whom he connected, wrestling competitively with Jung’s writing for his own strength and growth.
