In presenting an account of the clinical importance of Jung's dynamic theories of the psyche the author wishes, as indicated by his subtitle, to trace a coherent line from the earliest work on the association tests, from which emerged the theory of complexes, to the later formulations on psychic energy, on the archetypes and on the individuation process. He points out passages where Jung himself gave indications of how the two can be combined in a theoretical and clinically fruitful way.

Eschenbach finds the idea of complexes, energized not only by repressed personal