The Fixed Stars

by Molly Wizenberg

Carolee Schneemann’s

And I couldn’t undo it, because it was not other from me. It was me.

“The Swimming Song,” by Loudon Wainwright III.

the nature and necessity of suffering.

“Nothing,” asserts psychiatrist Carl Jung, “exerts a stronger psychic effect upon the human environment, and especially upon children, than the life which the parents have not lived.”38

I believe you stepped over the line here, CG Jung. Most parents have not lived an infinite number of lives, CG, since they lived their own lives, no other lives. Aren’t you leaving infinite psychic effects upon the heads of children here? I call BS on Herr Jung, who coined the term synchronicity, and who I have normally only admired. But Come On Carl Gustav!