Editing Basilides (section)

===Influence===
20th-century [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] [[Carl Jung]] wrote his [[Seven Sermons to the Dead]] and attributed them to Basilides.{{citation needed|date=April 2011}} The Argentine writer [[Jorge Luis Borges]] was interested in Irenaeus' account of Basilides' Gnostic doctrine and wrote an essay on the subject:  "A Vindication of the False Basilides" (1932).<ref>Borges J.L., ''Discusión'', (1932), p.48</ref> Basilides' Gnostic Gospel is one of the books mentioned in Borges's short story "The Library of Babel" (1941).{{citation needed|date=April 2011}} Basilides also appears in Borges' "Three Versions of Judas" (1944), which opens with the striking passage: "In [[Asia Minor]] or in Alexandria, in the second century of our faith, when Basilides published that the Cosmos was a reckless or evil improvisation by deficient [[angel]]s...".{{citation needed|date=April 2011}}