Books and Journals

C. G. JUNG: Psychological types. Collected works, Vol.  6. London,  Routledge & Kegan Paul; U.S.A., Bollingen Foundation, 1971, pp.  xv + 617. £6.25.

The publication of Jung's Psychological types has been delayed until next to last in the Bollingen Series. Had I been master-minding the operation, Types would have come first. When I first found Baynes’ translation, in 1932, I felt that this was the most important book that I had ever read. Since then, I have found no reason to revise my opinion, either on a personal or professional level. Needless to say, the new version, translated by Mr Hull, will occupy a prized position in my library.

Through the years I have done considerable research in this area, and these concepts have occupied a prominent place in my teaching. In the first place, I find them indispensable in relating to and communicating with my patients. There is no use in trying to talk feeling language with a thinking type, nor is thinking readily understandable to a feeling type. Secondly, I have yet to find a marriage problem, and many have passed through my consulting room, in which types have not played a leading part. Almost always, presenting complaints are in type terms, and as the exploration deepens the linkage between types and animus or anima become inescapably evident. Unless one invokes Jung's concepts, I do not know how it would be possible to understand love relationships, nor for that matter how one could gain insight into one's shadow. Thirdly, for me and for the people I have worked with, the individuation process is centered in the slow, painful, emergence of the undeveloped functions. Professor Meier presented a cogent and illuminating paper on this subject in the 1968 International Congress in Zürich.

At this point I think it only fair to tell you that I am an extraverted intuitive feeling type. This will orientate you to my bias. I have no thinking originality. Such originality as I may have resides in my differentiated fun