162
entitled "Assuming Responsibility"
in
Journey to Ixtlan.
After a heated
discussion in which don Juan
attempts to show Castaneda that
once he (in childhood) had signified
agreement with his father's plan to
go swimming with him, it was his
responsibility to fulfill his side of
the bargain even if his father did
not, Castaneda asks: "Why do you
tell me all this, don Juan? Why are
you doing this to me?"
The gravity of this conversation
in which don Juan calls the atten–
tion of his apprentice to the respon–
sibilities
inherent in personal
commitment and implicitly offers
himself as a remedial parent belies
the reviewer's overemphasis on the
manipulative, the tempting, the
clownish and illusional aspects of
the relationship.
Marie Coleman Nelson. Smithtown. N.Y.
Beginning our 11th year!
LETTERS
Mr. Crapanzano replies:
Ms. Nelson has been "held back
by the invisible wall of metaphor."
There is no difference between the
"journey within" and the "journey
without," at least in the don J uan–
Castaneda scheme of things. The
"manipulative, the tempting, the
clownish and illusional" are not at
loggerheads with the serious, the
spiritual, the grace, and the thera–
peutic. To translate don Juan into a
"remedial parent" and to describe
his relationship to Castaneda in
"psychoanalytic parlance" - - I
made use only of a metaphor from
psychoanalysis -- is to lose sight
of the uniqueness of the relation–
ship and, ultimately, of the
significance of the books.
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