I should begin this review by declaring an interest. I trained first as a ‘Jungian’, and then, finding myself conceptually more and more unhappy in the Jungian world, re-trained as a psychoanalyst. Michael Fordham, the doyen of British Jungians, was in many ways a comforting figure for me at the time of my unhappiness: he had found a different solution, but I felt he had encountered much the same difficulty.

The problem in essence was that Jung's remarkable intuitive insights, deriving from a