Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) wrote one of my favorite childhood books, The Jungle Book, the gripping tales of the feral child Mowgli and his animal friends Bagheera, the leopard, Baloo, the bear, Kaa, the python, and Mowgli’s deadly rival Shere Khan, the tiger. Decades later, and now trained in a psychoanalytic view of the world, I finally saw the bitter irony reflected in … [Read more...]