Erich Neumann, the author of The Origins and History of Consciousness, The Great Mother, Amor and Psyche, and The Archetypal World of Henry Moore, presents here the Jungian view of artistic creativity and its relation to culture. The thesis is exemplified by essays on Leonardo da Vinci, Marc Chagall, supplemented by observations on man and his transformations, and on the relation of art to its historic framework.—The book is highly stimulating and contains

perceptive and felicitous formulations. Within the framework of analytical psychology, the author pays tribute to Freud's “keen intuition,” yet would show that what tends to be treated as pathological in its genesis, contains positive creative sources.