The Seba library treats Redwood in 3 passages, across 3 authors (including Bly, Robert, Russell, Dick, Jung, Carl Gustav).
Reagan, we recall, said, ‘If you’ve seen one redwood, you’ve seen them all.’ Bishops and Popes have traditionally been lacking in the Wild Man; they take church doctrine seriously but not the ecology of the earth.
Bly deploys Reagan’s dismissal of the redwood as the exemplary symptom of a king stripped of the Wild Man — a psychic deficiency that leaves the non-human world without representation in the structures of power.
, Iron John: A Book About Men, 1990thesis
When Hillman came to teach for a second time in June 1987, for a gathering of ninety men deep within a redwood grove near Mendocino, California, Bly’s co-organizer Martin Keogh was worried.
Russell’s biographical account establishes the redwood grove as the environmental setting for Hillman’s formative engagement with the men’s movement, situating archetypal psychology within a landscape of ancient, numinous scale.
, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, 2023supporting
Printed in Great Britain by Redwood Press Limited Melksham, Wiltshire
A bibliographical colophon identifies Redwood Press Limited as the printer of Jung’s Collected Works volume on psychic structure — a purely material, non-symbolic occurrence of the term.
, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, 1960aside