The Collected Works of C. G. Jung

These four volumes introduce Professor Jung's Collected Works which will in the end make available the author's researches to the English-speaking world. The appearance of these volumes crowns a decade of consistent progress not only in research but also in penetration of the author's ideas. The penetration can be illustrated by considering his impact upon different disciplines, an impact resulting in the publication of a number of volumes by distinguished authors. To list some of them will show how important it has become to make available the sources of their inspiration.

There are expository volumes such as those of J. Jacobi and F. Fordham. Analysts have written on technique and theory making at the same time original contributions: G. Adler, M. Fordham, E. Neumann, H. Shaer and Victor White have considered the impact of analytical psychology upon religion; C. Kerenyi and H. Zimmer on classical and oriental studies: J. Layard and C. Aldrich upon anthropology. Professor Toynbee has lately made considerable use- of Jung's ideas, and finally Herbert Read has been able to apply them to art and aesthetics.

In consequence of this wide influence there has grown up a sense of expectation—a sense that Jung has some formula or elexir vitae to offer. If only for this reason the appearance of these volumes is opportune. Our post-war era has introduced a mental climate in which horror of the recent past is fading to give way to apprehension for the future. The old images of God have been shaken or discarded, and little that is commonly acceptable, or of real promise for progressive development, has arisen to replace them. Jung's psychology does not, and indeed does not aim at providing a collective formula to answer this predicament. This will be expected by those with insufficient understanding of his principles.

Highly interesting is the reaction of the critics, some of whom seem to be inflamed by the absence of what they expect, who show in consequence a highly ambivalent at