Nor Hall is an American woman, and a Jungian therapist. In this book she has realised a childhood vocation to become an archaeologist, by an ‘excavation of the mind’, in which she embarks on an extensive study in ancient art and modern letters of ‘reflections on the archetypal feminine’—her subtitle. The book is published by the Women's Press and therefore takes its place among other volumes of feminist literature written in or translated into English, but it is not specifically for or about women. One needs to remember this fact in order to avoid getting irritated by the lack of clear clinical material or any reference to a recognisable woman with whom one might be concerned, for insightful use in one's therapeutic practice,