Volume 21, Number 6 · April 18, 1974
Folie à deux
By Charles Rycroft
The Freud/Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung
edited by William McGuire, translated by Ralph Manheim, by R.F.C. Hull
Princeton University Press, Bollingen Series XCIV, 650 pp., $17.50
In view of the fact that both Freud and Jung have made a great stir in the world and that the ideas of both of them have become part of the intellectual climate of our time, the publication of their letters to each other is obviously an event of some general interest—and of some importance to scholarship. This volume is therefore to be welcomed, since it will form an essential source of material to anyone wishing to do research into the history of the psychoanalytical movement. Having said this, I must, unfortunately, add that the letters themselves, and the way in which they have been edited, will deter all but the most determined readers from actually reading The Freud/Jung Letters straight through as a book.
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