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Kelly Carlin

Disciplines:
usa
jungian psychology
comedy
stand-up comedy/george carlin

Summary

American writer, performer, and Jungian scholar who is the daughter of comedian George Carlin — and who has processed her relationship to her father's legacy and her own psychological development through Jungian analysis, writing A Carlin Home Companion.

Core Contribution

Demonstrates the personal application of Jungian psychology — her memoir A Carlin Home Companion uses Jungian concepts to understand her childhood with a famous, difficult, and brilliant father — providing a personal account of how analytical psychology can illuminate complex family dynamics.

Notable Works & Achievements

A Carlin Home Companion

Historical Influences

George Carlin C.G. Jung

Intellectual Lineage

Los Angeles Jungian analysis

Contemporaries & Peers

Jungian community

Minds Influenced

Jungian personal memoirJungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

A Carlin Home Companion

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