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A significant problem with Jung's writings and Jungian ideas is their relative lack of well-classified structure and organization. After reading several books of Jung, a reader might still be in doubt about the meaning of such vague but important terms as archetype, archetypal image, collective unconscious, anima, animus, self, constellation, and inflation. Although I had studied Jung's analytical psychology and already worked in myth analysis (Javanbacht, 2003, 2004, 2006a, 2006b; Javanbacht & Whitehead, 2006), The Jung and Jungians on Myth was the first book in which I found the noted confusion much diminished.
Steven Walker fulfills his goal of presenting Jungian terminology in a well-organized and well-structured manner. He defines each Jungian key term clearly and illustrates the terms with examples from a vast area of Jung's own sayings, books, letters, and conferences. For instance, in defining the term archetype, Walker provides more than 10 examples of Jung's own sayings and writings covering the development of Jung's ideas from the beginning of Jung's selection of this key word, through his scholarly life, to his last words about the term (pp. 5-10). Walker then clearly describes the differences between the archetype and the archetypal image and the Jungian use of these terms (pp. 12-15). Usually readers have to spend a substantial amount of time reading Jung's and Jungians' works to find the relationships and differences of such terminology, but here the definitions are clear and understandable.