Mrs Brunner was encouraged by Jung to undertake a psychological appraisal of Rider Haggard's novel She, a book he often mentioned in his works as being one of the best literary descriptions of the anima.

The author gives an account of Rider Haggard's background, environment, personality, and attitude to events, culled from his autobiography and his daughter's biography of her father. She also observes that he was living under great emotional strain when he wrote his book, which took him only six weeks. She then tells the story of the novel and interprets the events and images in it as if they were the contents of a long dream. She