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The first volume of the Library of Analytical Psychology consists of a collection of fourteen papers, all of which, with one exception, had been published previously in various issues of this Journal of analytical psychology. It is the aim of the editors to present a special trend within analytical psychology which focuses its interest upon three main areas: the first is ‘the study of Jung's work as a whole with a view to finding out what is essential and what parenthetic to his main thesis’ (p. ix). The second concerns itself with researches into childhood, adding Jung's concepts to what other disciplines—especially psychoanalysis—have been developing. This leads, in the third place, to an elaboration of techniques for analysing not only children but also the infantile and child parts in adult patients expressing themselves in the transference.
Several papers deal with the first point, i.e. with some of Jung's basic concepts. Leopold Stein, under the somewhat ambitious title ‘Analytical psychology: a modern science’ compares quite convincingly the concept of archetypes with models of modern physics, thus attempting to demonstrate the scientific character of analytical psychology. His second essay clarifies in a fundamental way the various uses of the term symbol. A critical notice by Robert F. Hobson of Jung's ‘The archetypes and the collective unconscious’ (Coll. wks, 9 part 1), besides mentioning the rich greatness of his discoveries, throws light on inconsistencies in Jung's presentation such as the mixing of incompatible languages and loose terminology connected with the concept of the archetype. A more serious reservation, however, is the following: ‘In suggesting that dreams arise with a spontaneity that cannot be influenced, (Jung) seems to underestimate the extent of secondary elaboration, which certainly occurs in reported dreams’ (??).
Michael Fordham uncovers in Jung's work two incompatible theories of the self side by side. The self is seen, on the one ha