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New Book about Secret Psychic Realm of Carl Jung

Announcement posted by Moon Girl Press 08 Jan 2015

The Medium Who Inspired One of the World's Greatest Thinkers







CHANNELING JUNG




Blom - A Woman's Journey to Individuation


A novel in verse


written by Danielle Shelley Carr




Blom, meaning flower in German, symbolises the process of becoming, blossoming, or in Jung's terms, individuation. This is the incredible story of a woman who channels philosophies and music of thinkers and musicians, in a subconscious language heard only in dreams. The verse novel is based on true stories.  


In the verse novel, a woman receives psychic communications in dreams, with a subconscious understanding and knowledge of German. The poetic form adds a musicality and lyricism to the novel, and evokes the symbolic quality of dreams.


The novel begins at a seance in the early 1900s, attended by Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, where his cousin Helene Prieswerk, a medium, summons the spirits of the dead, linking to a case study in the modern era, of a woman who experiences psychic thought transference in dreams.


A psychiatrist interviews her, discovering the German words to be possibly the communicated thoughts of Jung, and reveal her personal development, known as 'individuation'. He finds that she also hears the voices of the missing, including Jill Meagher, and the music of Beatle George Harrison, in Indian, in the form of the song, Shanti Shahram never before recorded in Harrison's life time.


The language and messages in dreams pose an interesting hypothesis for the psychiatrist studying her, Dr von Oppenheim - can a subconscious persona lie residually in the psyche, and even have a knowledge of a second language? The surface mind has no conscious knowledge of the language, and the meaning only comes to awareness through dreams. Blom explores those questions and seeks to explain them, through its narrator, Dr von Oppenheim. 


Classics such as the Gothic novella by Henry James' The Turn of The Screw andFranz Kafka's Metamorphosis are reprised with deeper philosophy and insight into the literary works. 


The journal also reveals the psychic's earlier encounter backstage at Melbourne's Princess Theatre, where she feels the presence of Federici in the dark, beside her, as he attempts to find life again through her passion for the theatre.



Blom is the secret dream journal, presented alongside the psychiatric documentation of Dr von Oppenheim as he endeavours to discover the origin, symbolism and meaning of the images and words of the subconscious. Blom, or Becoming, or The Transformation is available through Amazon and other online bookstores. 




Danielle Shelley Carr completed a Master of Arts in Writing and Literature, at Deakin University and her other books, in libraries throughout Australia, include the psychological thriller, Blood for St Valentine, Ellipse - a collection of poetry, a short story collection; Raiders of the Headland and other stories, the children's historical novel, The Orphan of Botany Bay, and the thesis, on psychoanalytic theory of literature, Psychological Reflections on Post-Modernist Gothic Literature.


For details of other publications;


http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A142653