a Jungian Analyst in Washington, D.C., explores the roadblocks we encounter and our on-going challenge to live our brief journey with as much courage, insight, and resolve as we can bring to the table. Table of Contents: 1. Archetypal Presences: The Large Forms Rolling Beneath The Surface of Our Lives 2. Reframing Our Sense of Self and World in Plague Times 3. Who Heals the Healer?-The Profile of the Wounded Healer 4. On the Psychology of Comedy: Is the Joke on Us? 5. Permutations of Desire 6. All Is Fire: The Imagination as Aperture into Psyche 7. Narcissus's Forlorn Hope: The Fading Image in a Pool Too Deep 8. Theogonys and Therapies: A Jungian Perspective on Evil 9. The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Yeats's Passage from Puer Aeternus to Wise Old Man 10. The Necessity of Personal Myth 11. For Every Tatter in Our Mortal Dress: Stayin' Alive at the Front Of the Mortal Parade Afterword Bibliography