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John Freeman tells us in his introduction that this book is ‘in its entirety—designed for and addressed to the general reader’.
About one-third of it was written by Jung himself, and he succeeds admirably in speaking in a straightforward and easy manner about his work and his ideas. It would have been better if the text as a whole had not been diluted with so many visual illustrations, some of which do not appear to be relevant, while others are not sufficiently clearly produced. In Jung's own chapter, particularly, they tend to diminish the impact of his words and personality upon the reader.
The other contributors to the work are Joseph L. Henderson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Aniela Jaffe, and Jolande Jacobi. Henderson discusses some interesting material, both from mythology and from dreams, and the general reader will be gratified by the orderliness of his presentation as well as enriched by his unobtrusive erudition, but he might gain a false impression of analysis from the cut-up case report of a woman who ‘had a dream—that seemed so important she sought professional advice to understand it’. Henderson interpreted this dream to her, and he continues as follows: ‘As one might