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CHAPTER ONE The Watchmaker’s Son CARL GUSTAV JUNG was born on July 26, 1875, in the quiet Swiss village of Kesswil, nestled along the shores of Lake Constance. His father, Paul Jung, was a Protestant pastor. He was dutiful, rational, and spiritually dry. His mother, Emilie, was… not. She believed in spirits. She spoke about them in ways that made Carl pay attention. And young Carl definitely noticed. He would later say his childhood home was split in two, a sunny upper floor where life was polite and ordered, and a dark, mysterious basement that hummed with strange energy. That image stayed with him. So did the dreams. There was one in particular: a phallus, enormous and divine, on a golden...