Mcmillan Book.Indb
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Number Seventeen carolyn and ernest fay series in analytical psychology David H. Rosen, General Editor The Carolyn and Ernest Fay edited book series, based initially on the annual Fay Lecture Series in Analytical Psychology, was established to further the ideas of C. G. Jung among students, faculty, therapists, and other citizens and to enhance scholarly activities related to analytical psychology. The Book Series and Lecture Series address topics of im- portance to the individual and to society. Both series were generously endowed by Carolyn Grant Fay, the founding president of the C. G. Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas. The series are in part a memorial to her late husband, Ernest Bel Fay. Carolyn Fay has planted a Jungian tree carrying both her name and that of her late husband, which will bear fruitful ideas and stimulate creative works from this time forward. Texas A&M University and all those who come in contact with the growing Fay Jungian tree are extremely grateful to Carolyn Grant Fay for what she has done. The holder of the McMillan Professorship in Analytical Psychology at Texas A&M functions as the general editor of the Fay Book Series. A list of titles in this series appears at the end of the book. Finding Jung a special volume Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Frank N. McMillan Jr., 1952 Finding Jung frank n. mcmillan jr., a life in quest of the lion Frank N. McMillan III Contributions by d avid h . r osen Foreword by Sir l aurens van der Post Texas A&M University Press • College Station Copyright © 2012 by Frank N. McMillan III Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First edition This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48 1992 (Permanence of Paper). Binding materials have been chosen for durability. library of congress cataloging-in-publication data McMillan, Frank N. (Frank Ney), 1957– Finding Jung : Frank N. McMillan Jr., a life in quest of the lion / Frank N. McMillan III ; contributions by David H. Rosen ; foreword by Sir Laurens van der Post. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology ; [no. 17]) “A special volume [in] Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology.”—ECIP ser. t.p. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-60344-581-8 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-60344-581-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-1-60344-696-9 (e-book) ISBN-10: 1-60344-696-6 (e-book) 1. McMillan, Frank N. (Frank Ney), 1927–1988. 2. Benefactors— Texas—Biography. 3. Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875–1961—Influence. 4. Dream interpretation. 5. Dreams—Psychological aspects. 6. McMillan Professorship in Analytical Psychology. 7. Jungian psychology— Endowments. I. Rosen, David H., 1945– II. Title. III. Series: Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology ; [no. 17]. CT275.M4436A3 2012 150.19'54092—dc23 [B] 2011033342 In loving memory of Frank N. McMillan Jr., this book is dedicated to Ella Wall McMillan and Frank N. McMillan. Their abiding love, everyday lived examples, and authenticity of personality were the spiritual soil that nourished the roots of its story and today allow a thriving canopy of ever widening meaning to climb for the heavens and beyond. —Frank N. McMillan III In memory of my dear friend and sage of Calvert, Texas. —d avid h . r osen I’d not give way for an Emperor, I’d hold my road for a King— To the Triple Crown I would not bow down— But this is a different thing. I’ll not fight with the Powers of Air, Sentry, pass him through! Drawbridge let fall, ’tis the Lord of us all. The Dreamer whose dreams come true! —r udyard Kipling, from Kim I have often had the fancy that there is some one myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought. —W. B. Yeats It is always possible that what lies in the dark- ness beyond our consciousness is totally different from anything the most daring speculation could imagine. —Carl Jung Jung saved my life. —Frank N. McMillan Jr., in conversation with d avid h . r osen Contents List of Illustrations xiii Foreword by Sir Laurens van der Post xvii Preface by Frank N. McMillan III and David H. Rosen xxvii Acknowledgments xlv Introduction by Frank N. McMillan III 1 The Words of Frank N. McMillan Jr.: Actualizing His Personal Myth 1. The Summons: Early and Middle Years—Dreams and Reflections on Reality, Consciousness, Religion, and Individuation 90 2. Tension of the Opposites: Creative Crossing—Transformation through the I Ching 114 3. Wholeness and Transcendence: The Circle Comes Round— Mature Dreams and Reflections on the Paradox of Consciousness and Individuation 128 Epilogue by David H. Rosen 155 Notes 169 Bibliography 175 Index 181 Illustrations Frank N. McMillan Jr., 1952 iv William Andrew McMillan, 1898 17 Frank N. McMillan Sr., senior portrait, A&M College of Texas, 1912 19 Ella Wall McMillan, 1912 19 Frank and Ella McMillan with “Mitzi” at the McMillan farmhouse side gate 19 Ella and Frank McMillan Sr., mid-1950s 19 McMillan farmhouse, Milam County, Texas 21 McMillan farmhouse, Milam County, Texas 21 Frank McMillan, age three, atop a “jenny” donkey 21 McMillan family portrait, circa 1934, the period of his “lion” dream 22 Fireplace room, McMillan farmhouse, early 1950s 22 Frank McMillan, 1941 24 Frank McMillan, 1943 25 Jack Pate and Frank McMillan Sr., 1950 26 Man with mules, Snead Plantation, circa 1940 29 Frank McMillan, captain, Calvert High School football team, 1943 31 Valedictorian Frank McMillan and “Bo” Allen, graduation day, Calvert High School, 1944 31 Frank McMillan, Motor Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class, United States Navy, 1945 32 Frank McMillan and friends, A&M College of Texas, Mothers’ Day, 1947 34 Frank McMillan, senior portrait, A&M College of Texas, 1949 34 Mabel and Frank McMillan on their wedding day, San Marcos, Texas, June 7, 1952 36 Photographic portrait of Mabel Hall McMillan taken by Frank McMillan, 1961 37 Frank McMillan family, Corpus Christi, Texas, Christmas Day, 1981 37 Frank McMillan being awarded “Corpus Christi’s Outstanding Land- man” by the Corpus Christi Association of Petroleum Landmen, 1962 38 Frank McMillan, Quaesta Energy portrait, 1967 39 Frank McMillan with one of his beloved Leica cameras, San Antonio, Texas, 1961 40 Photograph of a green anole lizard by Frank McMillan 40 McMillan family Christmas card photographed and created by Frank McMillan, 1962 41 Photograph of a hibiscus flower by Frank McMillan 41 Frank McMillan Sr., watering his horse near the Brazos River, Milam County, Texas 42 Frank McMillan Jr., campfire near the Brazos River, Milam County, Texas 43 Trout Medicine by Forrest Bess 56 Boxes, letter openers, figurine, and wooden jewelry handcrafted by Frank McMillan 66 Collection of wooden carvings by Frank McMillan 67 Trio of wooden carvings by Frank McMillan 67 McMillan family visiting at the home of Sir Laurens and Lady van der Post, London, 1988 74 Bookplate for the library at the C. G. Jung Centre, Cape Town, South Africa 75 Frank McMillan IV with his godfather, Sir Laurens van der Post, Cor- pus Christi, Texas, 1994 75 Frank McMillan at home, 1980 76 Frank McMillan, 1983 76 Frank McMillan at his office desk, 1982 77 Mabel and Frank McMillan, 1983 77 Frank McMillan with big “redfish” he caught in the surf off Padre Island, Texas, 1979 87 ( xiv ) Illustrations Frank McMillan Sr. with the American quarter horse, Poco Dale, nicknamed “Jack,” circa 1955 96 January 31, 1984, “Mandala Vision” 152 Rhinos carved by Frank McMillan 153 Illustrations ( xv ) Foreword I found myself1 reading Frank McMillan’s2 journals, as I might have done the log books of a lone sailor who had completed, after many a rough season, a circumnavigation of the world, or for that matter, an explorer who had come back with unbelievable news of the dark continent which Gerard Manley Hopkins described as the “inscape” of man. It was, all in all, a brave and rare thing to have done, for Frank had set out without models or outside aids of maps and manuals of navigation to help him in this long and hazardous voyage, and he had to rely entirely on the improbable intuition and unfamiliar instincts which prompted him. That he succeeded in doing this seemed due in great measure to the courage which was unique and so outstanding a feature of what I know of the story of his ancestors in Texas. They all, and Frank McMillan especially, possessed not just great physical courage, but courage of the imagination, to such a degree that it never occurred to them to be anything except what was natural to them. Dante, in his journey down into the depths of the human soul, so far and so deep that the going down became a way of going up and on until he stood at last, complete and accomplished, in the heart of Paradise, exhorted human beings to follow and obey without ques- tion those images and symbols which occur of their own accord in their mind and spirit. The great Leonardo asked somewhere by some- one important enough to extract an answer, how he came to do what his many-sided genius demanded of him, simply declared: “I am what I am because nature has predisposed me.” So it was that Frank McMillan, like his father and grandfather, following his natural Texas self, found—though he had no manuals of navigation, no maps left by other explorers—that he had, in the images and symbols that arose, starlike, in his dreams and their un- explored dimensions, access of the experience of all that life had ever been to keep the human being on a course of self-discovery and meaning for which he seemed intended.