Re: [math-fun] quadratic equations and Jung's "Red Book"

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:48 PM, James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote:

Sara Corbett's lengthy article (Sept 16, NY Times, here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/magazine/20jung-t.html?scp=1&sq=Red%20Book... ) about Carl Jung's "Red Book" contains the following slightly amusing sentence:

"Giving a dream to a Jungian analyst is a little bit like feeding a complex quadratic equation to someone who really enjoys math."

You mean, it bores them? If she'd just left off "quadratic" she would have been fine, I think. --Joshua Zucker