/lit/ - Literature

>"Another thing that struck me in the American was the great influence of the Negro, a psychological influence naturally, not due to the mixing of blood. The emotional way an American expresses himself, especially the way he laughs, can best be studied in the illustrated supplements of the American papers; the inimitable Teddy Roosevelt laugh is found in its primordial form in the American Negro. The peculiar walk with loose joints, or the swinging of the hips so frequently observed in Americans, also comes from the Negro.[3] American music draws its main inspiration from the Negro, and so does the dance. The expression of religious feeling, the revival meetings, the Holy Rollers and other abnormalities are strongly influenced by the Negro. The vivacity of the average American, which shows itself not only at baseball games but quite particularly in his extraordinary love of talking – the ceaseless gabble of American papers is an eloquent example of this – is scarcely to be derived from his Germanic forefathers, but is far more like the chattering of a Negro village. The almost total lack of privacy and the all-devouring mass sociability remind one of primitive life in open huts, where there is complete identity with all members of the tribe."

So this is the power of analytical psychology.

>be me
>Never read Carl Jung
>Know who dat is, but that's it
>Suddenly people all around me start talking about him
>'Bout how great he is
So where should I start, which book should I read first ?

I'm writing a novel, it will be my second, and I want to pursue a publisher instead of self publishing.

So far it's a rough outline in a drawer as I let it settle for a bit.

Would you guys be interested in a story about a boy being visited by an alien, visiting the Moon, and traveling to a dreamland while deconstructing Jungian psychological theory and archetypical characters and events in the monomyth?

I'm illustrating it too. Should be cool.