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The writing, at this late stage, of a review of Volume 15 of the Collected Works is more appropriate now than it would seem, because of its appearance in the U.S.A. as a paperback. Too late for inclusion in this number of the Journal, the details of it must be held over but, for at least one reader, interest has been revived in this small but important collection of Jung's papers ranging as it does from an early lecture (‘On the relation of analytical psychology to poetry’ 1922.) to the later and well-known critical essays on Joyce's Ulysses, and on Picasso.
Also in this volume are the two valedictories for Richard Wilhelm and for Freud. In German, these are mainly contained in the Zürich publications from : ‘See-lenprobleme der Gegenwart’ (1931) and ‘Wirklichkeit der Seele’ .
Turning first to the valedictories: these are still vivid and interesting. Jung's conflicting feelings about the people—especially the men—that he cared for comes across with some poignancy. They were both written hard upon death. Of Richard Wilhelm, first, in 1931. Here the tone is affectionate, thoughtful; and, since this was a memorial address, the people who heard it must have been primarily aware of how it is to lose a friend. Those of us who read now with an historical perspective understand how real were those underlying anxieties and doubts about external happenings in Europe which he expressed alongside his thoughts about Wilhelm.
Freud's death, next, in 1939. The article was written within weeks. By then, war had begun, and what Jung had sensed as a threat was tragically clear in action. The feeling, as he writes about Freud, is full of conflict, hard and sharp, beneath the concise argument. The lament, the recognition of greatness, the bitterness of its shadow. At this distance we see better what it must have cost him to maintain his own stand over against Freud; throughout, it is coloured by an Othello-like complaint: ‘the pity of it Iago, O Iago, the pity of it.’ That only the