On Board the Pequod: Moby-Dick as an American Myth

According to Carl Jung, Moby-Dick is the greatest American novel. It is a book that resounds with powerful archetypal and mythic depths. It reveals crucial insights into the collective psyche of America and, indeed, the world. Its portrait of the monomaniac Ahab’s hunt for the White Whale has powerfully relevant things to say to us today about our relationship with nature, with Transcendence, and with each other.