Art O. Donoghue (–2009)

Art O. "Kenny" Donoghue was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University after attending high school twice to be accepted by Harvard. He entered the US Army in 1941 until 1943 when he was finally discharged for health reasons (he was blind in one eye from being hit in the face by an iceball when he was a child in Boston; it took the Army more than two years to realize his disability). The last year he was stationed in North Carolina with no responsibilies (the Army was assessing his health status after they discovered he was blind in one eye), so he attended Black Mountain College with his spare time. From 1945 until 1947, with money from the GI Bill, he attended Trinity College in Dublin where he became friends with J. P. Donleavy. After receiving a Masters degree from Trinity, he moved to Vienna, Austria, where began Freudian psychoanalysis, which he was to continue for 13 years. While there he came across Freud's Cocaine Papers, which he translated and published with James Hillman through Hillman's Dunguin Press in 1962. In 1992 he made a spoken word audio for Spring Audio about "The Cocaine Papers," which was recorded at the Archetypal Psychology Conference held in the summer of 1992 at Notre Dame University in Indiana.
Throughout his life Kenny held varied jobs from mowing the lawns at the California State Capitol in Sacramento, to a cowboy chef in the West, gaming manager of a casino in Nevada, to a long-time trusted researcher for the Jung Institute in Zürich (in the 60s) and Spring Publications until his retirement to Ireland. He never minded any kind of work just as so long he could be near a good library or if it paid well enough for a time so he could free himself to indulge in his love of reading, knowledge, and historical research. A great talker and a lover of humor, Kenny could never get over a complex he had in relation to writing, which was not helped by his having prolific and successful writer friends. He never married or had children.
Kenny passed away this last March 2009 in his beloved Ireland.