In my last year of undergrad "studies" :) I picked up a small book by Jung; a selection of some his works. I read and re-read that first paragraph over and over again and it would not penetrate at all! A couple of years later, and an (internal) event, I got the actual book (Aion) and started reading. That book's margins are covered with arguments with Jung. We were on the same wavelength, finally. There is certainly something to Joyce (even though I never bothered to grant him the same attention as Jung, since Jung was a pedagogue and Joyce -- I agree -- an intellectual masturbator) and I am sure it is quite rewarding to those who penetrate it. I just like reading him for the pleasing sound of his text. [Aion is a great book btw: http://www.amazon.com/Aion-Researches-Phenomenology-Collecte...]