The death of a man so famous as Professor C. G. Jung produced, as was to be expected, numerous obituary notices: some of them eulogistic, some critical but nevertheless appreciative, and a number, nearly all of high quality, which discussed the relationship of his work to religion, history, art, sociology, and natural science, and its fertilizing effect on these.

The leading English daily paper (The Times, 8 June 1961), as well as giving an editorial comment on his death, thought his obituary worth two long columns—an unusual honour—and described him in the subtitle as “One of the Founding Fathers of Modern Psychology”, and he was also honoured by the press in his own country. It might have been expected that many psychological journals would have followed suit,