and such conclusions may be within the range of possibility" (London Letters 381). In reading The Call of the Wild, it soon becomes apparent that Buck's mental processes are meant to relate to the psychological experiences which are shared by all human beings. As such, Labor indicates that "we may infer that the animating force of London's wild romance is the vital energy Jung called libido and that London's hero is a projection of the reader's own self which is eternally striving for psychic integration in the process called individuation" (278). Thus, The Call of the Wild deals with the need to integ
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