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As Moreno states in the foreword, this short book (120 pages) is designed to provide the Italian public with a comprehensive survey written in Italian to introduce to and bring the reader up-to-date with Jungian ideas and analytical techniques, both classical and contemporary.
He begins by presenting the fundamental Jungian concepts in as complete an account as possible, by condensing, with as little omission as he can, the vast and complex material which forms the bulk of Jung's psychological theories.
He stresses the flexibility of techniques in analytical psychology compared with those in psychoanalysis. He holds that the former rejects all rigid orthodoxy in order to follow an open dialectic model of which individuation is a prototype.
The concept of archetype is the first to be introduced. Moreno gives a full historical account of Jung's development of this concept and the various definitions of ‘archetype’ and ‘archetypal image’ as they evolved in his thinking from 1919 onwards up to that of contemporary analysts on the subject. In particular Moreno is interested in the theoretical views of the London group and their attempts to establish links with the post-Freudians by exploring the common ground between Jung's archetypes, Melanie Klein's unconscious phantasies and Freud's concept of libido.
Furthermore, Moreno explores the links between archetypes, defined by Jung