[via Village Voice]

Donning a jacket as a cape, this past Saturday night Billy Corgan, in a discussion with Morgan Stebbins, was being psychoanalyzed at the Rubin Museum in New York City. The even took place in honor of Carl Jung’s 90-year-old manuscript The Red Book, which was recently unearthed and on exhibition now at Rubin. A pretty cool concept, actually.

Corgan was asked to look at a painting of a ship at sea with a large fish exposing jagged teeth just below it to relate his interpretation. Considering Corgan’s newfound appreciation for spirituality, and blogging about it, the conversation took a turn towards faith, God, and doubt, among other things.

From the Village Voice article: “What about confronting the monster?” Stebbins asked, attempting (in vain) to refer the discussion back to Jung and the psychoanalyst’s image of a vampire-like fish. “That’s a tough one, and I’m not talking about the obvious monsters,” Corgan said, equating Jung’s fearful vision to a former lover. “I lived with a monster in New York.” The musician added that what he really sought in a girlfriend was the possibility of speaking to the deeper, more innocent, being within.

Corgan went on to talk about wanting to have conversations with the 4-year-old versions of people, and also related a childhood story about how his mother would get complaints from adults because he would stare at them too much, realizing later that he “… is a mirror.”

Sounds like the discussion got pretty intense. But no more heavy handed than just about every interview Corgan’s done over the last few years, or, you know, his Twitter feed.

Other artists to be psychoanalyzed are David Byrne, Sarah Silverman, and Charlie Kaufmann.

Read the entire review over at the Village Voice.

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