You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
(1984). Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminars Given in 1928-1930. Ed. McGuire, W. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Pp. xxiii + 747. £25.
Over the years, many people have expressed regret over the dearth of detailed case material in Jung's published writings, even when both sympathisers and critics have understood that it is archetypal content that his descriptions of dream material, and other imaginative products, were designed to bring out, and especially the archetypal developmental processes in a dream series. Many people, however, wish also to know what the relation of the particular patient is to the archetypal processes activated in him, together with his individual and historical situation in life.
For some decades, that lack of personal material has been partially remedied in the privately printed and circulated notes of the seminars given on dream analysis during 1928-1930. Those gave a more detailed account of the background and personal life of one of Jung's male patients, and the dream series emerging during the treatment.
William McGuire, who has performed the task of preparing the notes for general circulation and now offers a first volume of seminars to the public, has assembled in his Introduction an interesting array of facts about Jung's use of the Seminar method—a form which he much favoured. When Jung was a Privatdocent at the University of Zürich, he began to teach in that way and in 1912 and 1913 he gave a series entitled ‘Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse’ for students in analysis, but no ordinary M.D. candidates. In April, 1914, he resigned his university post, but in 1916, while a medical officer in the Swiss Army, he managed to give a seminar in Zürich. After World War One, he gave unrecorded seminars in the summer of 1920 at Sennen Cove in Cornwall, and in July, 1923, at Polzeath, also in Cornwall, seminars on ‘Human relationships in relation to the process of individuation’. Those were recorded in longhand notes by Esther Harding an