Volume 23, Number 6 · April 15, 1976
Jung and God
By Rosemary Dinnage
C.G. Jung: Letters Volume 2 1951-1961
selected and edited by Gerhard Adler, in collaboration with Aniela Jaffé, translated by R.F.C. Hull
Princeton University Press, Bollingen Series XCV:2, 763 pp., $20.00
C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time
by Marie-Louise von Franz, translated by William H. Kennedy
C.G. Jung Foundation, 355 pp., $15.00
Jung and the Story of Our Time
by Laurens van der Post
Pantheon Books, 276 pp., $10.00
Jung on Elementary Psychology: A Discussion Between C.G. Jung and Richard Evans
by C.G. Jung, by Richard Evans
E.P. Dutton & Co., 224 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Last year marked Jung's centenary, and Freud's is already twenty years past; yet these two, who evolved so inevitably from a century of preoccupation with the strata underlying rationalistic thought, have remained curiously sacrosanct from serious biographical inquiry. The course of the six years' relationship between them, revealed with the publication in 1974 of the Freud/Jung Letters,showed Ernest Jones's biography of Freud to be, at the least, a discreet and partisan account; while Jung, fifteen years after his death, has had the benefit of scarcely any genuine assessment or biographical study. [*] Books such as Marie-Louise von Franz's, which is a dense and committed slab of Jungian exposition, or Laurens van der Post's, which is pure hagiography, will do little to interest readers either in the odd and complex man himself or in his place in cultural history: with literary friends who can write of him as 'one of the greatest religious phenomena the world has ever experienced,' as van der Post does, he hardly needs enemies.
Review, 4733 words
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