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What Jung really said. London, Macdonald, 1966. pp. 185. 15s.
A popular book in the ‘What they really said’ series edited by A. N. Gilkes. The author follows the development of Jung's ideas in a chatty but well-ordered manner which is likely to help the reader to go along with him.
Märchen und Träume als Helfer des Menschen (Dreams and fairytales as man's helpers). Stuttgart, Adolf Bonz & Co., 1966. pp. 99. Paper.
The fourth of a series of psychology books edited by Dr H. Fischle-Carl and intended for the general reader, this volume contains a section on the symbolic language of the fairy-tale, one on its motifs in dreams and phantasies, and finally it deals with the potential for spiritual development contained in fairy-tales. The author, a Jungian analyst, writes lucidly and convincingly on a subject which he has evidently studied widely, and he brings many examples from his clinical practice.
. Shakespeare's royal self. New York, G. P. Putnam, for the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, 1966. pp. xi + 422. $7.95.
This is an analysis of Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth, and of the chief characters in these plays. Dr Kirsch provides us with a deep examination and interpretation of the unconscious motivations of the characters in what he detects as their struggle towards wholeness, and his application of Jung's approach to the psyche is also fruitful in shedding light on the mind of Shakespeare. His study of Hamlet is another, and a very valuable furrow in a field which will perhaps never be completely tilled.
. Lord of the four quarters. Myths of the Royal Father. New York, George Braziller, 1966. pp. xvi + 272. $6.95.
The archetypal figure of the sacred father-king is studied in texts which illustrate the force of that figure for structure and orderly differentiation in the psyche, both individual and colle