Eighteen East 74th Street: An Autobiographical Novel

I'm an 88-year-old retired Jungian Analyst. I wrote this book to share a lifelong struggle to free myself from the powerfully dominating influence of my mother, something Jung more elegantly described as "The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother." It's a battle I now doubt can be won, although an uneasy truce may be achievable.

I believe the power that my mother's values and beliefs have over me is related to a very early experience in life that seems quite small but, like an atom, contain...