New Moon

A coming-of-age memoir linking Freudian analysis, New York City, and esoteric practice across the fifties and sixties

• Traces a timeline of 1944–1965 to show the author’s growth from elementary school to college while concretely mapping his psychological development

• Explains how Freudian analysis, Jungian reading, dream interpretation, and tarot divination help decode fear, alienation, and trauma

• Situates family conflict, camp life, baseball, and the threat of nuclear war as laboratories ...