"Jacob's Ladder" and the Artistic Journey
Demons, dying and deleted scenes
Welcome to the inaugural instance of the unchain art ‘noncast,’ an audio journey of artistic moments and reflections on artmaking with a distinctively Jungian spin.
In this first episode Fey and Cassie discuss the 1990 film Jacob’s Ladder, the ills of interfering with the artistic vision, and the death-rebirth process in artmaking.
Jacob’s Ladder, 1990 film, Bruce Joel Rubin (screenwriter), Adrian Lyne (director) https://www.brucejoelrubin.com/jacobs-ladder.html
Jacob’s Ladder, 1981 original script, Bruce Joel Rubin https://www.brucejoelrubin.com/scripts.html
It’s Only a Movie, 2024, Bruce Joel Rubin https://www.brucejoelrubin.com/memoir.html
Jacob’s Ladder and The Beauty of Psychological Horror, n.d., web article which includes deleted scenes https://aseriesoftangents.squarespace.com/filmreviews/jacobsladder
The Idea of the Holy, 1924, Rudolph Otto https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22259
The Adventure of Self Discovery, 1988, Stanislav Grof https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Adventure-of-Self-Discovery
The Wounded Researcher, 2020, Robert Romanyshyn https://www.routledge.com/The-Wounded-Researcher-Research-with-Soul-in-Mind/Romanyshyn/p/book/9780367468422
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9, Part I https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691097619/the-collected-works-of-c-g-jung-volume-9-part-1 From paragraph 184: “As we know, a complex can be really overcome only if it is lived out the the full. In other words, if we are to develop further we have to draw to us and drink down the the very dregs what, because of our complexes, we have held at a distance.”
Bumper music, Dialectic 3 | piano, clarinet, 2025, Drew Harkey https://drewharkey.com/